Destruction of a Houthi missile and drones store

The Yemeni army regains the offensive initiative west of Marib

The army retook a number of sites in the Serwah-Al-Mashjah front after a battle that left dozens dead and captured Al-Houthi.

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The fronts in the west of the Ma'rib governorate witnessed, yesterday, great progress by the Yemeni army forces and the tribes, supported by the Arab coalition, after they launched a counter-attack on the Houthi militia, which launched the largest attack on the governorate during the past two days, while Sana'a witnessed large explosions in one of the missile and weapons stores of the militia north The city, while the joint forces foiled the smuggling of detonators and explosives to the Houthi militia.

In the details, field sources in the Marib governorate confirmed that the army and tribes, backed by the Arab coalition, managed to break the largest offensive operation of the Houthi militia on western Marib, since the beginning of the Houthi attacks on Marib in 2015, indicating that the militias were subjected to a process of attrition without any Make any progress on the ground.

It also confirmed the restoration of a number of sites in the Serwah-Al-Mashjah front, after a battle with the Houthis at dawn yesterday, which left dozens of dead and prisoners, including field commanders, as well as recovering various military vehicles and ammunition, pointing to the army and tribes ’advancement towards Mount Helan and the Arielat summit in particular, which is The highest peak in the Hilan mountain range extending from Sirwah Ma'rib, on Khawlan in the countryside of Sanaa.

The sources pointed out that the largest Houthi attack west of Ma'rib, towards the central and smaller Balk mountains, and west of the red sky, inflicted heavy losses on them, before the army forces launched a counter-attack with the support of the coalition fighters and advanced towards Maysarah Al-Mashhajeh on the Al-Beeb road leading to Sirwah.

In Al-Kassara, the sources confirmed that the militias failed to make any progress towards Wadi Nakhla, and the areas inaugurating the injection and inaugurating Al-Khashab, all of which are areas located between Al-Kassara and the Hilan Mountains, where the army and tribes control the strategic Al-Alam mountain range, which overlooks the road linking Al-Jawf and Marib.

The sources pointed out that the battles are 15 km away from the Kassara, that is, in the areas of injection shower and wood shower, and around the area of ​​al-Alam, noting that army reinforcements arrived at the Kassara, which included specific military equipment.

According to the sources, the coalition fighters played a major role in thwarting the recent Houthi attack on the fronts west of Ma'rib, as is their custom, and they managed to destroy combat vehicles and gatherings, and thwarted the Houthi infiltration in the Al-Mashjah, Hailan, Sarawah, and Meddhal areas, and in areas separate from Sana'a and Marib.

In Hailan, the Houthi militia failed to launch a ballistic missile, and the moment it was launched, it exploded, causing heavy losses among the Houthi elements, including foreign missile and drone experts.

In the south of Ma'rib, the army forces and the militia tribes suffered heavy losses in the Haid Al Ahmad front, located between the Jabal Murad and Rahba districts, after targeting their sites with artillery and guided missiles.

The Yemeni army website announced the death and injury of dozens of Houthi militia members, including field leaders, in confrontations and air strikes in the western and southern outskirts of the Marib Governorate, indicating that the militias failed to make any progress in the vicinity of Marib.

For its part, the militias acknowledged the death of 43 of their prominent leaders in the battles of Marib during the past two days, including Brigadier General Saddam Hashim al-Ghaili, commander of the Al-Mashjah Front, commander of the militia’s Sixth Brigade, Nasr, the leader Abu Khattab al-Harouni, commander of the Support and Engineering Unit, and Colonel Ali Ahmed al-Nahmi.

And in Sanaa, medical sources said that dozens of Houthi bodies, who fell on the fronts of Marib, are piled up in the capital's hospitals, and that refrigerators have been used to place the bodies in them, despite the funeral and handing over of the bodies to the people that have been going on since last March.

In the capital, Sanaa, a large explosion occurred in a Houthi weapons depot, which includes strategic missiles and booby-trapped aircraft, in the Guard School located behind the Saudi German Hospital, north of the capital, after it was targeted by an air strike by the coalition fighters.

Local residents on Al-Zoriki Street near the Saudi German Hospital, behind Al-Thawra Stadium, and the Military Academy north of the city, stated that huge explosions occurred in the warehouse after it was targeted, and that projectiles were flying out from the store and lasted for about an hour, which sparked terror and panic among civilians, who denounced the storage Militia have weapons near residential neighborhoods.

In Saada, coalition fighters destroyed Houthi fortifications in the Razih border district, in conjunction with artillery shelling by the army forces on militia sites in the district, leaving the Houthis dead and wounded.

In Al-Dhalea, confrontations were renewed between the joint and southern forces on the one hand, and the Houthi militia on the other hand, in the vicinity of Tabat Othman and the outskirts of the Al-Fakher sector in the northwestern side of the governorate, after monitoring Houthi movements in those areas.

The Bab front has also witnessed confrontations between the two sides, in which various types of light, medium and heavy weapons were used, leaving dead and wounded on both sides, according to field sources, confirming the failure of three Houthi attacks towards the joint and southern sites in the northwest of Dali during the past two days.

In Taiz, the army and resistance forces launched an attack on militia sites on the al-Tuwair and Qahhabat fronts in the Maqbana district, which lasted 12 hours, leaving the Houthis dead and wounded, as well as destroying a combat vehicle and damaging another.

In Hodeidah, the joint forces seized in the vicinity of Al-Barah, large quantities of detonators, which were on their way to the militia-controlled areas, according to the joint military media, stressing that units of the 22nd Infantry Brigade in the Al-Barah front, in coordination with the joint operations, were able to seize large quantities Of the detonation detonators, they were hidden in a house in preparation for their transfer to the Houthis, where they were confiscated and the persons involved in the operation were arrested.

This comes one day after two trucks loaded with materials used in the manufacture of explosives and explosive devices were seized in the vicinity of Al-Waziya on the western coast of Yemen, which were on their way to the militias.

The joint thwarted Houthi movements in the vicinity of Al-Durayhimi district, inflicting heavy losses on them, as well as targeting artillery sites and areas firing towards civilians and putting them out.

The militias continued to target civilians in Al-Faza and Al-Jabaliya in Al-Tuhayta, and in Hays, and east of Al-Hodeidah city, using various weapons and snipers, as part of their daily violations of the UN truce.

* Medical sources confirm that dozens of bodies from Houthi fighters who fell on the fronts of Ma'rib are piled up in the capital's hospitals.

• 43 prominent militia leaders were killed in the battles for Ma'rib.

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