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Yemen denies stopping military operations along Saudi border

Wednesday, 09 March 2016 5:28 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 09 March 2016 5:27 PM ]

Yemeni army spokesman Col. Sharaf Luqman (file photo)

Yemen's army says its operations backed by popular committees are underway along the border with Saudi Arabia, dismissing rumors of a reduction in the retaliatory operations.

Yemen's army spokesman, Brigadier General Sharaf Luqman, told Russia’s Sputnik news agency on Wednesday that the army has received no official order to scale down its operations along the border.

Yemenis have been carrying out attacks on targets inside Saudi Arabia in retaliation for the Arab kingdom’s aggression against their nation.

Asked if Yemeni army’s operations have been temporarily stopped, Luqman said it is "not true" and the military operations are still ongoing.

He also referred to the visit by a delegation of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement to Saudi Arabia for talks, saying negotiations are under way with a view to swapping prisoners.

The official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said in a Wednesday statement that Ansarullah movement has freed a Saudi soldier in exchange for seven detained Yemenis as part of a tribally-mediated agreement.

On Tuesday, two senior Houthi officials told Reuters that representatives of the group had arrived in Saudi Arabia to discuss a truce along the frontier.

Yemen has been under military attacks by Saudi Arabia since late March last year. The Saudi military strikes were launched to bring the fugitive former president, Abd Rabbu Mansur Hadi, back to power. At least 8,400 people have been killed and 16,015 others injured since March 2015.

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