The great victories of the joint Yemeni resistance forces, supported by the Arab Coalition for the Support of Legitimacy in Yemen led by Saudi Arabia, and the direct support of Emirati forces in 2018, imposed a new reality in the military equation on the ground and created a new reality after its success in penetrating the fortifications of the Huthi militias loyal to Iran. The most important fronts are the West Coast, the first artery for the survival of the Huthis, and the extraction of the last maritime arteries that feed them with money, arms and supplies, which passed through the port of Hodeidah and other ports, including Salif and Ras Issa.

And under the military pressure on the fronts of «Saada and the White and Hajjah, Taiz, Dali and North Lahj», primarily the fronts of the West Coast and access to a distance of three kilometers from the port of Hodeidah, break the thorn of the militias and announce their acceptance to withdraw from the city of Hodeidah and strategic harbor in western Yemen, with no other options to maintain On its only maritime artery for Iranian support, the threat of international shipping and the blackmail of the world, and agrees to go unconditionally to new consultations, the United Nations has sought all its weight to hold in Sweden. As the history of the militias in adhering to treaties and agreements is black, military option and decisiveness on the fronts remains an open option and a sole guarantor of the extent to which treaty foxes have adhered to the Swedish consultations held in early December 2018.

«Emirates Today» spotted the most important stations of war and peace in Yemen in 2018, and came out with the following result:

On January 3, 2018, the Joint Yemeni Resistance Forces, supported by the UAE forces and coalition fighters, seized control of the Irfan Valley in Hays, south of the city of Hodeidah, and carried out a large sweep of the farms between Al-Khokha, Yakhtil, Zahari and the villages adjacent to Lahis amid mass exodus of militias. Wadi Zami south of the center of Hays Directorate.

On the same date, Yemeni army forces liberated Jabal al-Ghoul strategic, in the Directorate of Nita in the province of Al-Bayda, after fierce battles with the militias left dead and wounded in their ranks, to be revealed by the commander of the Beihan, Major General Farah Bahib, on the preparations and preparations for the launch of the liberalization of all directorates The province of al-Bayda, to be announced on January 5 the death of prominent Houthi leader Nidal Muhammad Ali al-Miqdad, a senior sheikhs tribes Anas Bzmar, along with a number of his companions in the battles in the Directorate of Nata in white.

On January 10, 2018, the senior military field commander in the West Coast militia, Colonel Hani Hassan Ali Qiao, announced his dissent from the Huthis as a result of what he described as unfair practice against the sons of Tihama by the Houthis. Colonel Qo'i operates under his command about 23 different artillery positions.

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On 6 February, the completion of the liberation of the Hays Directorate, south of Hodeidah, was declared complete, opening the way to complete the liberation of the city and the rest of the Hodeidah districts in the west of the country.

On February 11, 2018, a spokesman for the Coalition for the Support of Legitimacy in Yemen, Colonel Turki al-Maliki, confirmed that the Yemeni ports are open to donor countries and organizations to send aid.

On 4 March 2018, the Yemeni army, backed by the alliance, began a military operation deep inside the Haradh district of Hajjah province, which is the second largest district of Hajjah, and is about six kilometers from the Saudi border.

March 4, the pro-Iranian Houthi militias impose a total siege on the Directorate of Surgery in the southern province of Hodeidah.

March 16, for the second time, the Yemeni resistance forces foiled a naval attack on militias in the West Coast Front, south of Hodeidah province, targeting the village of Qataba in the width of the coast of the city of Al-Khokha.

March 21, the Yemeni army tightened control of all villages and districts of the Directorate of Nata in the province of Albaidah, after the liberation of the remainder of them in full, and progress towards the area of ​​«scandal», the first districts of the Directorate of Malagm.

April 4: The Yemeni government reiterates its accusation by Yemeni Information Minister Muammar al-Iryani of the Iranian Houthi militias that they will continue to use the port of Hodeidah for military purposes, threaten the international shipping line and target merchant ships passing through the waters of the Red Sea.

A report by the Wathaq Institute for Civil Rights (Independent Human Rights) revealed that 241 human rights violations were committed in Yemen in March 2018, including extrajudicial killings and injuries, assaults on the body, abductions and arbitrary detentions, looting, destruction and destruction of property, Public and private institutions.

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On 12 April, the militias were severely hurt by the Yemeni army and the Arab Alliance, having completed their full control of the coastal city of Medi and its strategic harbor on the Red Sea in the province of Hajjah in the northwest of the country, which is "a severe blow and knock a nail into the coffin of the coup, Project of Iran, given the strategic importance of this city ».

The first operation of Tariq Saleh forces

On 19 April, the first participation of the National Resistance Forces (PRC) under the leadership of Brigadier Tariq Saleh, son of the late President Ali Abdullah Saleh's brother, was announced after the rehabilitation of former Republican Guards by the UAE forces operating in the Arab Alliance in Yemen. Al-Mukha junction in the West Coast with the support of the Arab Coalition Forces.

Death of the sheep

On April 22, a senior leader of the Iranian Houthi militia, Saleh al-Samad, was killed in an Arab alliance raid targeting his motorcade in Hodeidah, west of Yemen. He is the second-ranking member of the militias after Abdul-Malik al-Houthi and heads the so-called "Supreme Political Council" When they overturned President Abdurbo Mansour Hadi.

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May 23, a number of officers and military personnel in the naval college in the city of Hodeidah, declare a military rebellion against the militias, and refuse to carry out the orders of the militia supervisor called Abu Ali Kahlani.

May 28, pro-Iranian militias begin massive looting of government institutions in the city of Hodeidah, west of Yemen, with the arrival of legitimate Yemeni forces to the gates of the city and the near liberation.

May 30, militias loot the central bank branch, in Hodeidah, on the west coast, apparently prelude to withdraw from the city.

May 30, the Huthi militias drove about 50 Iranian experts and a number of first-rank leaders from Hodeidah to other areas to ensure their safety.

Entering Drehemi

1 June 2018, Yemeni Joint Forces confirm their entry into the Directorate of Durahmi on the outskirts of the city of Hodeidah, and control a number of weapons and military mechanisms of the militias in the first step in the framework of the battle to liberate the city of Hodeidah.

June 5, spokesman for the Coalition for the Support of Legitimacy in Yemen, Col. Turki al-Maliki, explained that the reasons for the delay in the recovery of Hodeidah relate to the safety of civilians taken by the Houthis as human shields.

The battle to liberate the city and the port of Hodeidah begins

On June 13, 2018, a day was marked by a difference between Yemenis in general and Al Hodeidah residents in particular. The battle for the liberation of Hodeidah port and city was announced by the joint Yemeni resistance forces, supported by the Arab Coalition, with a field command from the coalition forces, The southern city in a short time, which was a severe blow to the militias, while the forces continued incursion into the Nekheila area south of the city of Hodeidah, armed with heavy air cover of the coalition, and the bombing of the center of barges war, which led to the collapse of Huthi defenses and paralyzed the movement completely.

At the same time, the Legal Support Coalition launched a local radio station for the residents of Hodeidah on FM wave, frequency 105 fm, to inform them of the developments of the military operation and inform them of the instructions and directions, for their safety, and not to be victims of media misinformation of the Houthi militias.

13 June, the Yemeni President, Abderbo Mansour Hadi, calls for resorting to the military decision to liberate the city and port of Hodeidah, after the things reached in the province to the degree of humanitarian disaster can not be tolerated by the practices of Houthi and its stubbornness to reach a political solution to end the crisis in Yemen, The Saba news agency reported.

June 13, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Yemen, Mohamed Al Jaber, confirms the start of the battle to liberate Hodeidah with a tweet saying: "Hodeidah is liberated. Yemen is breathing."

Call on the international community to intervene

June 14, the Yemeni government called on the international community concerned with the safety and security of international shipping to support its efforts with the Coalition for the Support of Legitimacy in Yemen to liberate the port of Hodeidah from the grip of the Huthi militias, which it used for three years for military purposes, smuggling of missiles and weapons, . The government considered the liberation of Hodeidah as "saving more than four million civilians from the terror of the coup militias and their siege of the province for more than three years."

June 14, the militias recognize the death of Brigadier Ali Ibrahim Mohammed al-Mutawakil, one of its senior field commanders in Operation Golden Victory to liberate the city of Hodeidah and its strategic harbor in western Yemen.

June 15, Yemeni President Abdurbo Mansour Hadi arrives in the interim capital of Aden to oversee the conduct of military operations carried out by the National Army and the Popular Resistance, supported by the Saudi-led coalition forces, to liberate Hodeidah.

Battle of Hodeidah Airport

On June 16, the joint forces announced that it was able to support the fighters of the coalition and its fighters from storming the walls of Hodeidah International Airport, after it succeeded in storming the western gate of the airport, bypassing fortifications by elements of Houthi, and declared full control of the airport and the siege of the militia, 30 Houthi elements killed in battle to liberate the airport.

The importance of airport strategy.

June 18, the battle of the liberation of Hodeidah Airport entered its final phase after the incursion of the joint forces towards the western gate, coinciding with the isolation of the Houthi groups in Tuf al-Hodeidah from the context of the battle in which the forces continued their operations from two axes: the first east of the airport, Hodeidah, and the second in the port (Corniche Hodeidah), the coastal strip leading to the strategic port of Hodeidah, which is less than 10 kilometers from the airport.

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June 19, the joint Yemeni resistance announced its control of the "Hodeidah - Sana'a," and cut off one of the most important lines of supply of militias Houthi, a few hours after the defeat of Hodeidah airport and large areas south of the city of Hodeidah, amid a broad collapse in the ranks of militias that fled to the center of the city, It confirmed that it carried out a process of detour east of Hodeidah airport. It managed to control the general line known as the K-16 line, which would stifle the militias and prevent the reinforcements from reaching Sana'a from Hodeidah.

June 26, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are flying an airlift of humanitarian and relief assistance to the city of Hodeidah across Yemen's various airports. On 28 June, 28 countries called for support for the humanitarian efforts of the Saudi-led coalition countries, and the protection of relief and medical organizations. Areas of control of Houthi militias.

June 29, the militias are trying to transfer the number of prisoners of the central prison in the city of Hodeidah to the province of Hajjah and Sanaa and unknown destinations, in addition to the transfer of those sentenced to death on the fronts to fight among the coup, led to prisoners protest these decisions, resulting in the injury of three prisoners .

August 9, the death of prominent Houthi leader Mansur al-Soudi, a mechanic (Abu Hameed), who leads the so-called "rapid intervention" of the Huthi militias in Darihami, along with a number of his companions in clashes with the Yemeni forces in common.

August 31, news of the death of the leader of the militias of al-Houthi, Abdul Khaleq al-Houthi, and a number of his companions in a raid of the coalition on a farm in the Directorate of Bagel in Hodeidah.

7 September 2018, the death of the leader of the Huthi Brigadier General Mohammed Abdul Malik Atef, commander of the 190th Brigade, next to the naval college in the city of Hodeidah, following a combing operation carried out by Apache fighters of the Arab coalition forces, and killed alongside him leader of the Houthi Ali Salah al-Qiri, and 16 other members of the Houthi militias Coup d'état in the same place targeted by Apache fighters.

September 13, the militias recognize the killing of Major General Mohammed Abdulmalik Saleh Atef, commander of the so-called Brigade 190, and Major General Ali Salah Muhammad al-Qiri, commander of the so-called 190 Air Defense Brigade, on the West Coast Front south of the city of Hodeidah, while the coalition fighters launched more than 50 raids in support of the resistance forces Which took control of the Red Sea Mills roundabout, the beginning of the 50th Street, the area of ​​the Ikhwan Thabit factories and the Sana'a Street from Al-Matahen roundabout to the Kilo 16 triangle east of the city.

September 25, militias storming the WFP warehouses in Hodeidah, inspecting all files and contents, and separate the surveillance cameras of the site.

September 27, the leader of the al-Houthi militia elite, Lt. Col. Ali Ahmad al-Muwadi, was killed and 14 of his companions escorted by an Arab air force plane in the Kilo 10 area east of Hodeidah.

October 3, militias force residents of neighborhoods close to the confrontation lines south and east of the city of Hodeidah to evacuate their homes and leave them to other places, turning them into military barracks.

October 17, Saudi Arabia succeeded in releasing the French hostage (Alain Koma), kidnapped by the Huthi militias, for nearly four months.

November 3, the joint forces control the University of Hodeidah amid the collapse and escape of militia fighters into the inner neighborhoods of the city.

November 4, the death of Houthi leader Abdullah al-Mahtouri, along with 15 members of the militia, in the Kilo 16 area east of the city of Hodeidah.

November 16, the militias detonated the "May 22 school" in Al-Jah district of the Directorate of Beit al-Faqih south of Hodeidah, in the province of Hodeidah in western Yemen, as part of the scorched earth policy followed in response to successive defeats.

November 20, UAE and Saudi Arabia announce a new relief initiative to assist 10 to 12 million Yemenis, including an additional $ 500 million earmarked for humanitarian purposes.

December 19, Yemen's Legitimacy Support Coalition, is able to destroy a UAV and launch platform at Sanaa International Airport. The coalition confirmed that the destruction of the plane was in the preparation stage for its launch, and neutralizing Houthi terrorist attack imminent.

December 24, spokesman for the Coalition for the Support of Legitimacy in Yemen, Colonel Turki al-Maliki, announced that the Houthis continue to violate the Swedish agreement, and that the number of violations amounted to this date 138 separate violations.

Yemeni peace consultations in 2018 culminate in Sweden's agreement on Hodeidah

The year 2018 in Yemen witnessed an escalating process of attempts to revive the peace process between the Yemeni parties with the efforts and sponsorship of the United Nations after stumbling over the three-month period of the former UN envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh in Kuwait to declare the end of the Mauritanian diplomat's birth, After a new attempt by a new UN envoy who was appointed successor to the son of Sheikh in February 2018. He is the British diplomat Martin Griffith, who succeeded in achieving a breakthrough and was able to bring together the Yemeni parties in the consultations of Sweden, which ended with the agreement «Hodeidah», which came under great military pressure By the joint Yemeni resistance forces, supported by the alliance, has pushed pro-Iranian militias to sign them, but their implementation and commitment by the Houthis remain in doubt.

On June 13, 2018, a day was marked by a difference between Yemenis in general and the people of Hodeidah in particular, in which the battle for the liberation of Hodeidah port and city was declared by the joint Yemeni resistance forces, supported by the Arab alliance.

Houthis continue to breach the agreement of Sweden, as the number of violations until 24 December last 138 violations.

Hodeidah Agreement:

- Ceasefire in the city of Hodeidah and its ports: Hodeidah, Saleef and Ras Issa.

- Strengthening the presence of the United Nations in the city of Hodeidah and the ports of Hodeidah, Salif and Ras Issa.

- Commitment not to bring any military reinforcements to both parties.

- Facilitating the free movement of civilians and goods.

- Opening corridors for the arrival of humanitarian aid.

- Deposit of all port revenues in the Central Bank.

- Remove all military manifestations in the city.

- Mine clearance in the city of Hodeidah and its ports.

The agreement also stipulates that the militias withdraw from the ports of Hodeidah, Saleef and Ras Issa to the north of Sanaa road within 14 days from the date, with the redeployment of the government forces south of the line, in addition to the complete withdrawal of the Houthis from the city of Hodeidah in the second phase to locations beyond its northern border during 21 days of its due date.