Failed militia movements in 3 Yemeni governorates

Prominent Houthi field commanders killed in Ma'rib battles

Fighters from the Yemeni army take up their positions during confrontations with militias in Marib.

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Field sources confirmed on the fronts in western Ma’rib governorate, that the Houthi militias incurred heavy losses among their members, including prominent field leaders, during the response of the army and tribes forces, with the support of the coalition fighters, to infiltration attempts and attacks launched by the militias on the fronts of “Al-Kasara and Al-Mushajah”, while an infiltration attempt failed in Al-Khanjar front in Al-Jawf, with the forces preparing to launch a military operation in the Kataf-Al-Baqaa axis in Saada, while the joint forces thwarted Houthi movements on the western coast fronts.

In the details, the Houthi militia continued its attempts to advance and infiltrate the fronts in western Ma’rib governorate, and yesterday launched a broad attack on the army and tribes’ positions on the Kassara, Al-Mashjah, and Wadi Dhanna fronts, without achieving any significant progress, according to field sources, confirming the militias’ failure to penetrate the army’s defensive lines. And the tribes on those fronts.

The sources confirmed that the militias incurred many deaths, including prominent field leaders, in their recent attempts on the Al-Kasara and Al-Mashajah fronts, west of Marib, where the coalition fighters launched support raids that destroyed combat mechanisms used in the attacks on army and tribal sites.

The sources indicated that 30 raids launched by the coalition fighters on the western and northwestern Marib fronts, targeted Houthi positions and movements, leaving many dead and wounded among their members, and destroying various combat mechanisms.

The sources indicated that the militias transported the bodies of their dead leaders towards Sanaa, including Major Imad Ali Tamish, Saleh Muhammad Sobeih, Rizk Lutf Attia, Nabil Mansour Al-Nahmi, and Saddam Gharamah, in addition to transporting leaders who were injured in those raids and the weapons of the army and tribes.

The coalition warplanes launched a series of raids on Houthi sites in four governorates, targeting, in addition to their positions in Marib, Houthi sites in the Khab and Al Sha'af front in Al-Jawf governorate, sites in Shada and Kataf districts in Saada governorate, and another in Haradh district, Hajjah governorate.

On the Bani Dabyan front between Sanaa and Marib, the army and tribes were able to launch a counterattack on Houthi positions in Wadi Dhanna, after they executed a tight ambush for a convoy of Houthi combat mechanisms, which were trying to advance on the road linking Khawlan towards Sarwah, Marib.

In Al-Jawf, hit-and-run battles continued in the vicinity of Al-Khanjar camp, east of the city of Al-Hazm, the provincial capital.

In Saada, military sources in the Kitaf axis confirmed the arrival of large reinforcements to the army from training camps established by the Arab coalition forces in the border strip between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, as part of preparations to start a military operation against the Houthi militia in the Kataf-al-Baqa' front.

The sources indicated that the reinforcements include combat units with qualitative training, and armed with combat equipment commensurate with the geographical nature of the region, and that it will change the course of the battle and will open new fronts towards new areas.

In Sanaa, the Houthi militia continued to liquidate the tribal and military leaders that supported it in the storming of Sanaa in 2014. The Houthi leader, Brigadier General Hussein Ali al-Mahdi, was killed by Houthi gunmen in the center of the capital, Sanaa.

In addition, the militias mourned during the past two days 13 leaders who fell on the battlefronts in Marib, Al-Jawf, the western coast and Taiz, including the Houthi leader who was released in the last prisoner exchange deal, called Muhammadi Ali Dahmane, nicknamed “Abu Zaid”, and the leader Muhammad Hussein Al-Dawla, who is One of the leaders close to the militia leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi.

In Al-Bayda, the Houthi militia bombed the Al-Habej area in the Al-Zaher district with tanks, which led to the killing of three children, in a new crime committed by the militias against civilians in the governorate.

In Hodeidah, the Houthi militia bombed the city of Hais, south of Hodeidah, with more than 26 artillery shells, in a dangerous escalation of hostilities on the fronts of the western coast.

In al-Durayhimi, the Houthi escalation of hostilities led to the displacement of a number of families from the village of al-Nakhila, located to the west of al-Durayhimi district, to escape the artillery and missile shelling launched by the militias on their area on an almost daily basis.

• The arrival of large army reinforcements coming from the training camps established by the coalition forces in the border strip between Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

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