Yemeni forces are about to declare Shabwa a fully liberated governorate

Field and other local sources in Shabwa governorate confirmed that the announcement of the completion of the liberation of the governorate will take place within the next few hours, noting that the liberation of Ain, the third district of western Shabwa, will soon be completed.

Today, Sunday, the forces participating in the liberation of Shabwa began a military operation with great support from the coalition fighters towards the Ain district, from three axes, during which they reached the district center located in the west of the governorate, after completing the liberation of several areas adjacent to the district from the direction of Bayhan district.

For his part, Shabwa Governor Awad Al-Awlaki said in a press statement that the next few hours will be announced in which full control of the province will be announced and purged of the Houthi militias, adding: "Our military operations against the militias will not stop, and they will move to other areas."

During the past few hours, Bihan district witnessed a large-scale clearing operation in al-Saq areas and its surroundings in the east of the district, for pockets and militia cells. Directly towards the district center.

Field sources said that the defensive lines, Houthi positions and points spread along the areas adjacent to the Bayhan district from the Ain side, collapsed and Houthi elements fled towards the Harib Marib district, while the forces continued their advance towards the third district, from the Najd, Ja`dar, Qarn Obaid, Wadi Jarban, and Al-Saffah districts. .

While the engineering teams of the Yemeni legitimate forces and the Saudi Center for Demining "Masam" continued their operations to clear and clear the liberated areas of mines and explosive devices, the Houthi militia booby-trapped the roads leading to Al-Bayda Governorate, with the aim of impeding progress towards the districts of Nata', Numan, Radman and Musawara.

Meanwhile, the air defenses of the forces in Shabwa managed to shoot down three booby-trapped drones launched by the militias towards the districts of Usaylan and Baihan, and sabotage operations of infiltrating and infiltrating Houthi elements were thwarted in several areas of the two districts. liberated areas.

The Houthi militia had bombed the civilian area of ​​Raydan with a ballistic missile that fell in one of the car maintenance workshops, leaving many dead and wounded, and cut off communications and the Internet from the three districts in western Shabwa.

For its part, the coalition warplanes launched a series of focused and accurate raids on Houthi sites, targets and combat mechanisms in the Ain district and the outskirts of Harib from the direction of Aqabat al-Qunza, and the Harib-Bayhan junction.

On the other hand, Yemeni military sources confirmed that the liberation of Shabwa and access to Al-Bayda will open the way to liberate eight Yemeni governorates, and secure Houthi attacks on five liberated governorates in the north and south.

In Marib, the army and tribes, backed by the Arab coalition, continued their advance on the fronts south and west of the governorate, following the forces’ victories in the western Shabwa districts, according to field sources, confirming that the progress is taking place through the Ramli and Jabali axes, on the southern front, towards Wadi Hailan and the center of Serwah district. In the mountain axis.

The sources confirmed the continuation of progress towards the Mala’a area, in Al-Juba, after completing the liberation of the Al-Faliha area and Qarn Laza, and it was able to impose its full control over 9 km, after violent battles with the militias, which incurred heavy losses in the ranks of their members and their combat equipment, pointing out that among the The Houthis killed five of the Houthi leaders.

The head of the Yemeni army’s Azkan Authority, Lieutenant-General Saghir bin Aziz, confirmed in press statements that 80% of the Houthis’ combat capabilities have been destroyed during the past months, and that operations in the vicinity of Ma’rib and other fronts have shifted from defense to attack, indicating that there is great coordination with the coalition to complete the liberation. And access to the capital, Sanaa.

For its part, the coalition fighters targeted Houthi combat targets and mechanisms in the districts of Al-Juba, Sirwah and Al-Balaq desert, with a series of qualitative support raids, which caused the Houthis to lose the initiative to launch attacks, and enabled the forces and tribes to advance to liberate more sites, including Umm Reish camp.

In addition, the engineering teams of the Yemeni army extracted more than 700 mines from the recently liberated areas south of Marib, which had been planted by the Houthi militias with the support of foreign booby-traps and explosives experts.

In Amran, north of Sanaa, coalition fighters destroyed weapons depots and a combat communications network for the Houthis in Jabal Sabih in the Khammer district, and the Bani Ghathima area in the Bani Sarim district, which left extensive destruction in the Houthi defense system, and many deaths among the leaders and elements working in that field.

The coalition raids came hours after they targeted and destroyed an operations room and a control point for Houthi marches in Qarn al-Ajam area in Raydah District, in the same governorate.

In Taiz, the joint forces targeted, for the second day in a row, Houthi sites, targets and positions of weapons in Rasyan Valley in the Muqbna district, and also bombed Houthi gatherings and movements in Jabal Ras and Al-Jarrahi districts, southeast of Hodeidah.

In Hajjah, coalition fighters renewed their targeting of weapons depots and gatherings of Houthi combat vehicles in the Abs district, for the second day in a row, targeting al-Jar farms with six raids, which led to the destruction of three weapons depots and a number of combat vehicles, including Katyusha rocket launchers.

In Saada, the coalition fighters paralyzed the intelligence capabilities of the militias, after targeting a control room, gathering information and communication in the Al-Abdin area, south of the city of Saada, the provincial capital, which was used to receive information and provide instructions to its members on the frontiers with Saudi Arabia.

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