In a potential major step in the four-year long Saudi Arabia-led invasion of Yemen, Yemen’s Houthi movement has announced that their fighters have crossed the border into the southern Najran Province of the Saudi kingdom, overrunning at least 20 positions.
Houthi spokesman Yahya Sarei promised to release extensive video footage of the operation soon on Yemeni state media, and claimed that in the three-day push, more than 200 Saudi and UAE troops were killed or wounded.
This would be the first major cross-border ground operation by the Houthis of the war, and more important than any briefly held territory are claims by Houthi officials are massive stockpiles of equipment taken from the Saudi-led forces in the process. If true, this could shore up the Houthis military apparatus with pricey Saudi-bought arms.
There are historic territorial disputes on the Yemen-Saudi border in this area as well. During the 2009 fighting between the Houthis and the Saleh government, there was substantial fighting on the Yemen-Saudi border, in much the same area.
The 2009 fighting saw the Saudis engaged in familiar tactics of heavily bombing civilian targets, and ended with a temporary defeat of the Houthis, though the border region in northern Yemen remained heavily dominated by Shi’ites who supported, and still support, the Houthis.
Iranian money is keeping the Houthis alive…as the amount of funding for terrorist activity is reduced by USA sanctions on Iran, these Iranian proxy killers in the war in Yemen will run out of war materials…a good step toward peace…
If it was Czechs defending themselves from Nazis, with France aiding the Czechs and the UK aiding the Nazis, would your opinion be the same? Or might you say something along the lines of letting aggressors win encourages further aggression?
I won’t comment on hypothetical situations that do not actually exist…
But you already have. You’ve invented a hypothetical situation in which people whose country is being invaded for the purpose of installing another country’s puppet as ruler are the “aggressors.”
Only in your mind, in reality I have said nothing like that…
“Iranian money is keeping the Houthis alive…as the amount of funding for terrorist activity is reduced by USA sanctions on Iran, these Iranian proxy killers in the war in Yemen will run out of war materials”
The Houthis are the Yemenis.
They’re defending themselves from Saudi aggression. Maybe the Iranians are helping them, but whether that’s the case or not, they are defending themselves from aggressors, and you’re pretending they’re the aggressors.
suggest you check your sources, you are misinformed…The Houthi rebels are a tribe of shia Muslims that get ALL their money and weapons from Iran, there is no question about that, and they even admit it….they are fighting the elected legitimate government of Yemen recognized by the UN and USA…The government is also supported by neighboring Saudi Arabia which is Sunni Muslims. Unfortunately, the religious rivalry between Iran and Saudi is not helping the situation…The USA has done a great service to the region by cutting off the flow of money to the Ayatollah… he will now have much less money to spend on terrorism in Yemen…
I’m not surprised that you’d fall for that con, given that you also fell for the claim that history began on September 11, 2001 and that the 1990s were all just a dream.