Yemeni legitimate forces incur heavy losses to the Houthi militia in Marib
The Yemeni army and tribes, backed by coalition fighters, repelled a number of attacks and attempts to infiltrate Houthi militia members through three tracks in the west and south of Ma’rib governorate, and inflicted heavy losses on them, according to field sources, confirming the failure of three attacks and infiltration attempts by Houthi elements on the fronts of al-Kasara and al-Mushajah to the west, and Wadi al-Mashjah to the west. Thin south.
The sources stated that the militias, after retreating over the past two days to the Al-Sawad Mountains in the south, launched during the past few hours continuous attacks against the army and tribes' positions in the vicinity of the Balk and Al-Zour mountains, but they suffered heavy losses. Muhammad al-Anthari al-Aubri, as a result of the intervention of coalition fighters with a series of focused and qualitative raids.
Two militia attacks towards Al-Mashjah and Al-Kasara in the Serwah district, west of Marib, were also thwarted by the army and tribes, and after the intervention of the coalition fighters, which had a major role in thwarting the militias’ attempt to storm the first defenses of the city of Marib from the side of Al-Balaq in the south and Al-Kasara in the west.
The sources stated that the attacks and the exchange of shelling between the two sides took place in the areas of Al-Atif and Al-Ra’a, northwest of Al-Mashjah, and Al-Tala’a Al-Hamra, west of Al-Kasara, where they were broken and thwarted, causing the militias to suffer heavy losses.
Yemeni military leaders had confirmed the transformation of the battles on the Ma'rib fronts from defense to the beginning of implementing a qualitative combat tactic, represented by launching attacks on Houthi sites in certain areas and then retreating to defense areas.
For its part, the coalition fighters launched a series of raids on Houthi targets and vehicles in the areas surrounding Wadi Danna, south of Marib, including Arak, Al-Hayal, Arqoub Al-Zour, Al-Hosn, and the Black Mountains overlooking the Rawdat Thinat Jahm, Tawala, and Al-Ajrama, during which vehicles were destroyed, killing and wounding many. Of the Houthis, while the rest fled for fear of being targeted.
In the capital, Sanaa, the Arab Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen announced the destruction of a ballistic missile launcher and mine-making workshops, with the killing of a group of missile and explosives experts, in a raid on a militia site and compound south of the capital.
A coalition statement reported by the Saudi Press Agency "SPA", at dawn on Saturday, stated that raids of the coalition fighters destroyed a ballistic missile launcher, and killed a group of experts, missiles and explosives south of Sanaa, as well as destroying a workshop for manufacturing mines and assembling marches.
The coalition noted that it had taken preventive measures to spare civilians and civilian objects from collateral damage, without further details.
And local sources in Sana’a confirmed that huge explosions occurred at a site that includes hangars, which are workshops for assembling marches and manufacturing mines and explosives belonging to the militias in the Artel area, south of the capital, Sana’a.
The coalition fighters also launched raids on Houthi sites in the Al-Quran area of Sanhan district, south of Sanaa, and another in the Al-Dhaher district of Saada governorate, and destroyed Houthi reinforcements and a Houthi combat communications room in the village of Al-Hakimah in the isolation of Barsha in the Makbanah district, west of Taiz, which left 26 Houthis dead and injured. Among them are prominent field leaders in the western Taiz front.
In Hodeidah, the official of the media center of the Yemeni Giants Forces confirmed the continuation of progress towards the Wesab Junction, which is administratively affiliated to Dhamar Governorate, and the Jabal Ras District, southeast of Hodeidah, and that the road linking Dhamar and Hodeidah was controlled by fire.
And field sources for the joint venture confirmed the implementation of a military operation for coalition fighters in the Jabal Ras District, in which 150 members of the Houthi "artillery battalion" were eliminated, and 8 combat vehicles were destroyed.
Meanwhile, two elderly people were injured by mortar shrapnel fired by the Houthi militia at their house in the Muharraq area, east of Hais in Al-Hodeidah, after Houthi elements infiltrated near the district from the side of Jabal Ras.
In addition, the engineering teams of the joint venture and the Saudi project "Masam" continued to dismantle dozens of mines planted by the Houthi militia in the agricultural fields south of the village of Al-Baleel, north of the Hays district in Hodeidah, where 40 camouflaged mines were dismantled during the past two days.
On the other hand, informed sources in the port of Hodeidah confirmed the arrival of a batch of naval mines to the Houthi militia, coming from one of the regional countries, threatening international navigation in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab.
In Al-Dhalea, the air defenses of the joint and southern forces managed to shoot down a Houthi drone in the Battar front, northwest of the governorate.
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