Yemen - Civil War

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M-ATVs turn up in Aden

Jeremy Binnie, London - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
14 July 2015

Yemeni fighters with Oshkosh M-ATV vehicles on a street in the port city of Aden, Yemen. Source: PA Photos

At least a dozen Oshkosh All-Terrain Mine-Resistance Ambush Protected Vehicles (M-ATVs) have been delivered to Yemeni and are being used in the fighting for the strategically important port city of Aden.

Amateur videos and photographs of the M-ATVs in Aden began to emerge on social media channels on 12 July. One video showed a convoy of 12 M-ATVs fitted with bar armour and operated by ununiformed men. At least some were armed with 14.5 mm KPV heavy machine guns rather than the .50 Browning guns or Mk 19 grenade launchers the type is usually seen carrying.

The vehicles are presumably supplied by either Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the two regional countries that operate the M-ATV. Both countries are currently supporting forces loyal to Yemen's internationally recognised President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi against the Zaidi group Ansar Allah (the Houthis) and allied military units.

Pro-Hadi forces made progress in the battle for Aden in the wake of the arrival of the M-ATVs, with the international airport being captured on 14 July. Four M-ATVs were photographed at the airport on that day.
M-ATVs turn up in Aden - IHS Jane's 360

 

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Anti-Houthi forces advance in Yemen amid heavy Arab air strikes

Military vehicles of the Southern Resistance fighters move during clashes with Houthi fighters on a street in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden. (Reuters)

Reuters, Aden/Sanaa
Saturday, 18 July 2015

Local fighters and army forces in Yemen have wrested two military bases from Houthi forces overnight, residents and officials said, building on a week of gains against the country’s dominant faction.

The advances come a day after Yemen’s government in exile declared the key southern city of Aden “liberated,” in their biggest victory yet in a Saudi-led air campaign and civil war that has raged almost four months and killed more than 3,500 people.

Saudi-backed Yemeni forces backed up by air strikes seized the Labuza army base in Lahj province north of the port city and the headquarters of the 117th armored division in eastern Shabwa province some 230km (145 miles) away.

Officials in the anti-Houthi forces say the offensive was planned for weeks and benefited from training and arms deliveries from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

The war in Yemen has pitted the Sunni Muslim Gulf states, which support the exiled government, against the Shiite Houthis allied to Iran, in a conflict that has further raised the stakes as the Middles East grapples with regional rivalries and sectarian strife.

But power struggles have simmered for years in the impoverished and conflict-wracked country, and fighters in Yemen’s south -- the setting for most of the recent battles -- have long sought independence from the North, the Houthis’ home.

Residents said Houthi forces and their allies in Yemen’s army made an attempt to regroup and take back northern fringes of Aden on Friday, firing rockets at the Khor Maksar district.

Their push was repelled, anti-Houthi fighters said, and an offensive backed by air strikes is underway to take Anad air base, one of Yemen’s largest, 60 km (40 miles) north of Aden.

Last Update: Saturday, 18 July 2015 KSA 12:31 - GMT 09:31
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/07/18/Anti-Houthi-forces-advance-in-Yemen-amid-heavy-Arab-air-strikes.html

 

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Projectile kills Saudi soldier in Najran

Saudi soldiers with their weapons stand guard at the Yemen border in Jizan, Saudi Arabia. (File photo: AP)

By Staff writer | Al Arabiya News
Saturday, 18 July 2015

A projectile killed a Saudi soldier in the border city of Najran on Friday, the official Saudi News Agency reported.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthis in Yemen announced “the martyrdom of the ground forces soldier /Hamad Awad Isa due to the fall of a projectile in Najran sector,” SPA said.


Last Update: Saturday, 18 July 2015 KSA 10:09 - GMT 07:09
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/07/18/Houthi-projectile-kills-Saudi-soldier-in-Najran-.html

 

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Before and after, ammo storage:

 

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Members of the #Saudi Special Forces today in #Aden - #Yemen

 

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The Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman inspects the advanced units of the Armed Forces in the Southern Region

 

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He congratulated them on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr and conveyed greetings of Saudi leaders to them on the Eid - SPA

 

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First pictures of Saudi Special Forces in Aden

 

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Before and after, ammo storage:

The RSAF - with UAE - has reached a surgical technical level quite exceptional (Like USA, France, UK, Israel). They fail us as satellites targeting and intelligence, the first ones (Pleiades) will be provided by the UAE.

Investments, choices of equipment and training bear fruit beyond expectations.

God bless you Abdullah bin Abdulaziz (1995-2015).



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Saudi Special Forces in Aden

 

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