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Yemeni forces strike Saudi soldiers inside kingdom: Video

Thursday, 11 August 2016 8:47 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 11 August 2016 9:14 PM ]

This photo, provided by the media bureau of operations command in Yemen, shows a Yemeni fighter preparing to launch a projectile against a position of Saudi border guards in the kingdom’s southwestern border region of Najran.

The media bureau of operations command in Yemen has released the footage of a joint missile attack by Yemeni army forces and allied Popular Committees fighters against Saudi border guards in the kingdom’s southwestern border region of Najran.

The video, released on Thursday evening, shows flames leaping from a number of Saudi armored vehicles and tanks in one scene, and a watchtower targeted in the Najran region, located 844 kilometers (524 miles) south of the capital Riyadh.

The footage also shows Saudi soldiers fleeing from their military camps, leaving behind their personal belongings and munitions. They did not even collect the dead bodies of their comrades lying on the ground.

The attack purportedly took place late last month and left seven Saudi soldiers, including a high-ranking army officer, dead.

The Yemeni forces routinely engage in clashes with Saudi border guards either along the border with the oil-rich kingdom or inside Saudi Arabia. The attacks are part of a drive by Houthi Ansarullah fighters and allied army units to force the Al Saud regime into ending its deadly military onslaught against Yemen.

Dozens of Saudi soldiers and officers have lost their lives and sustained injuries in the clashes.

The video was released on the same day as the Yemeni snipers shot and killed two Saudi border guards at the Khobe military camp in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern border region of Jizan, located 966 kilometers (600 miles) south of Riyadh.

Late on Thursday, the Yemeni forces launched several missiles at the al-Khanjar and Khalifin military bases in the Khabb wa ash Sha'af district of the northern Yemeni province of al-Jawf.

There were no immediate reports of casualties among the ranks of Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal to Yemen’s resigned president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

International concerns are rising over the upsurge in the conflict in Yemen after the UN-brokered peace talks in Kuwait between representatives of the former government and the Houthi Ansarullah movement failed to make a breakthrough and were suspended on August 6.

Yemen has been under Saudi military strikes since late March 2015. The war was launched in a bid to undermine the Ansarullah movement and to reinstate Hadi, who has stepped down as Yemen’s president but is now seeking to grab power by force.

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