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Amazing work guys. 
The collation managed to get hands on almost southern Yemen. Once they approached the North, Houthis will be kicked by their fellows in San'a and other surrounding places all they way to Sa'ada.
The collation managed to get hands on almost southern Yemen. Once they approached the North, Houthis will be kicked by their fellows in San'a and other surrounding places all they way to Sa'ada.
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Why they did not use C17 for the unloading of mens and equipments, it would have been much faster - less physically demanding for mens - ?
They (GCC) must change to mental program.
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Yemeni military base captured from Houthis
Shiite fighters known as Houthis gather at the site of a car bomb attack next to a Shiite mosque in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, July 29, 2015 (Photo: AP)
By Staff writer | Al Arabiya News
Monday, 3 August 2015
Fighters loyal to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, bolstered by Gulf Arab support, seized the country’s largest military base from Houthi forces on Monday after heavy combat in which dozens were killed or captured, a pro-Hadi commander said.
If confirmed, the victory would mark another significant gain for the Hadi loyalists after they drove the Houthis from the southern port of Aden in July following months on the defensive.
The recapture of the al-Anad base also opens up the road north to the city of Taiz, where Iranian-allied Houthi militias have been locked in combat with local fighters siding with Hadi.
“The national army and the popular resistance have completed control of the al-Anad military and air base,” the operation commander, Brigadier-General Fadel Hassan, told Reuters by telephone.
He said dozens of Houthis were killed or captured during hours of clashes, while hundreds have fled. His forces were combing the base, which covers an area of 40 square km (15 square miles) for any Houthis who may have remained behind.
He said his force would march on to complete the “liberation” of the provinces of Lahej and Abyan.
There was no word from the Houthis on the outcome of the battle. The Houthi-run Saba news agency said earlier that Saudi-led air raids had repeatedly struck the military base.
The base has been under siege for weeks by the Southern Resistance, an alliance of southern groups including secessionists seeking an independent south Yemen.
The assault began after new weapons, including armored vehicles that had been supplied by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, arrived to reinforce fighters.
Witnesses said they saw dozens of new armored vehicles heading in two separate columns in the morning towards al-Anad.
Saudi Arabia is leading a coalition that has been pursuing an air campaign inside Yemen since March against the Houthis.
The Houthis control the capital, Sanaa, and northern parts of the deeply impoverished Arabian Peninsula nation.
Coalition planes targeted Houthi and Saleh-allied militias in the country’s eastern province of Taez on Monday, according to Al Arabiya News Channel.
Political settlement
The leader of the Iranian-backed Houthis said on Sunday he was ready for a political settlement to end the war in Yemen.
“A political solution is still possible, internally,” Abdel-Malek al-Houthi said in a speech live on television, without elaborating.
During the speech, Houthi urged his militia to fight on against Yemen’s government, dismissing its recapture of Aden last month as a ‘limited’ achievement made possible by Ramadan.
He said Aden’s fall occurred only because some Houthis had returned home to be with their families at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
“Continue and move in your resistance. You are in a strong position. And you are on the way to win,” he said. “We are in a battle, a great battle, in which we must use all our efforts.”
“The enemy, when it threw all its weight and carried out thousands of raids, succeeded in limited achievements. They took advantage of an opportunity,” Houthi said, referring to Ramadan.
Houthi accused his foes of resorting to alliances with both militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Israel in their assault on the southern port city.
Yemen’s government retook much of Aden in July, supported by air strikes waged by Saudi Arabia and its regional allies.
(With AFP and Reuters)
Last Update: Monday, 3 August 2015 KSA 21:47 - GMT 18:47
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/08/03/Houthi-chief-ready-for-political-settlement-.html
Shiite fighters known as Houthis gather at the site of a car bomb attack next to a Shiite mosque in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, July 29, 2015 (Photo: AP)
By Staff writer | Al Arabiya News
Monday, 3 August 2015
Fighters loyal to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, bolstered by Gulf Arab support, seized the country’s largest military base from Houthi forces on Monday after heavy combat in which dozens were killed or captured, a pro-Hadi commander said.
If confirmed, the victory would mark another significant gain for the Hadi loyalists after they drove the Houthis from the southern port of Aden in July following months on the defensive.
The recapture of the al-Anad base also opens up the road north to the city of Taiz, where Iranian-allied Houthi militias have been locked in combat with local fighters siding with Hadi.
“The national army and the popular resistance have completed control of the al-Anad military and air base,” the operation commander, Brigadier-General Fadel Hassan, told Reuters by telephone.
He said dozens of Houthis were killed or captured during hours of clashes, while hundreds have fled. His forces were combing the base, which covers an area of 40 square km (15 square miles) for any Houthis who may have remained behind.
He said his force would march on to complete the “liberation” of the provinces of Lahej and Abyan.
There was no word from the Houthis on the outcome of the battle. The Houthi-run Saba news agency said earlier that Saudi-led air raids had repeatedly struck the military base.
The base has been under siege for weeks by the Southern Resistance, an alliance of southern groups including secessionists seeking an independent south Yemen.
The assault began after new weapons, including armored vehicles that had been supplied by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, arrived to reinforce fighters.
Witnesses said they saw dozens of new armored vehicles heading in two separate columns in the morning towards al-Anad.
Saudi Arabia is leading a coalition that has been pursuing an air campaign inside Yemen since March against the Houthis.
The Houthis control the capital, Sanaa, and northern parts of the deeply impoverished Arabian Peninsula nation.
Coalition planes targeted Houthi and Saleh-allied militias in the country’s eastern province of Taez on Monday, according to Al Arabiya News Channel.
Political settlement
The leader of the Iranian-backed Houthis said on Sunday he was ready for a political settlement to end the war in Yemen.
“A political solution is still possible, internally,” Abdel-Malek al-Houthi said in a speech live on television, without elaborating.
During the speech, Houthi urged his militia to fight on against Yemen’s government, dismissing its recapture of Aden last month as a ‘limited’ achievement made possible by Ramadan.
He said Aden’s fall occurred only because some Houthis had returned home to be with their families at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
“Continue and move in your resistance. You are in a strong position. And you are on the way to win,” he said. “We are in a battle, a great battle, in which we must use all our efforts.”
“The enemy, when it threw all its weight and carried out thousands of raids, succeeded in limited achievements. They took advantage of an opportunity,” Houthi said, referring to Ramadan.
Houthi accused his foes of resorting to alliances with both militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Israel in their assault on the southern port city.
Yemen’s government retook much of Aden in July, supported by air strikes waged by Saudi Arabia and its regional allies.
(With AFP and Reuters)
Last Update: Monday, 3 August 2015 KSA 21:47 - GMT 18:47
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/08/03/Houthi-chief-ready-for-political-settlement-.html
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Yemen currency plunges after decision to shut down port
Saudi border guard watches as he stands in boat off coast of Red Sea on Saudi Arabia's maritime border with Yemen, near Jizan. (File: Reuters)
By Staff writer | Al Arabiya News
Monday, 3 August 2015
Yemen’s riyal plunged against foreign currencies after an announcement that Al-Hudaydah port would be shut down, due to the conflict in the country, and all ships diverted to Aden’s ports.
A bank source in Sanaa said the dollar exchange rate increased Monday from 214 riyals to 236 riyals, adding that the sudden rise was a first since the 2011 revolution.
However, companies and money exchangers did not sell dollars on Monday as it was not available on the market.
Last Update: Monday, 3 August 2015 KSA 13:09 - GMT 10:09
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/business/economy/2015/08/03/Yemen-currency-plunges-after-decision-to-shut-down-port.html
Saudi border guard watches as he stands in boat off coast of Red Sea on Saudi Arabia's maritime border with Yemen, near Jizan. (File: Reuters)
By Staff writer | Al Arabiya News
Monday, 3 August 2015
Yemen’s riyal plunged against foreign currencies after an announcement that Al-Hudaydah port would be shut down, due to the conflict in the country, and all ships diverted to Aden’s ports.
A bank source in Sanaa said the dollar exchange rate increased Monday from 214 riyals to 236 riyals, adding that the sudden rise was a first since the 2011 revolution.
However, companies and money exchangers did not sell dollars on Monday as it was not available on the market.
Last Update: Monday, 3 August 2015 KSA 13:09 - GMT 10:09
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/business/economy/2015/08/03/Yemen-currency-plunges-after-decision-to-shut-down-port.html
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Foreign Ground Troops Join Yemen Fight
By SAEED AL-BATATI and KAREEM FAHIMAUG. 3, 2015
AL-MUKALLA, Yemen — The United Arab Emirates has sent a military brigade to aid fighters battling Houthi rebels in Yemen, senior Yemeni and United States military officials said Monday, in a move that threatened to escalate a regional struggle between Iran and the monarchies of the Persian Gulf.
The Emirati troops landed in the southern port city of Aden in recent days, bringing with them tanks and other armored vehicles, the officials said. They quickly had an effect, participating in a rout of Houthi fighters on Monday from one of Yemen’s largest and most strategically important air bases, according to a senior Yemeni military commander.
A coalition of Sunni Arab states, led by Saudi Arabia and including the United Arab Emirates, has been waging a bombing campaign against the Houthis since late March — largely driven by the view that the Houthis, a Shiite-led movement from northern Yemen, is fighting on behalf of Iran, Saudi Arabia’s regional rival.
The Houthis acknowledge their alliance with Iran but deny that they are acting as its proxy. The Obama administration has said that the Saudis are exaggerating the ties between Tehran and the Houthi rebels, who control Sana, the capital, and other parts of Yemen. The criticism has not deterred the Saudis from carrying out thousands of airstrikes and imposing an air and maritime blockade around Yemen as part of an aggressive offensive that aid workers say has helped fuel a humanitarian crisis.
Apparently frustrated with an impasse in the combat — as well as growing international condemnation of airstrikes that have killed hundreds of civilians — the Saudi-led coalition recently increased its assistance to fighters battling the Houthis in Aden. Fighters recaptured the city from the Houthis last month. Some of the Yemeni fighters were trained in the Persian Gulf, and the United Arab Emirates supplied them with armored vehicles.
Small numbers of Saudi and Emirati troops have been fighting in Yemen for at least the last few weeks, according to southern Yemeni commanders. The arrival of the Emirati brigade, though, marked the first time a large foreign force had entered the ground war. “The U.A.E. and the Saudis are putting a lot into this,” said a senior United States military official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational reports. He said the two countries’ aggressive military intervention said a great deal about their concerns over Iran’s expanding influence.
The Houthis and their allies still control large portions of the country and remain deeply entrenched in the north. But they have faced intensifying pressure over the last few weeks as they have lost territory and as the Saudi coalition has committed more military resources.
In the south, the Houthis are struggling against a force that includes southern separatists, the fighters who trained in the Persian Gulf and now the troops from the United Arab Emirates.
After weeks of trying, the anti-Houthi fighters said they had captured the Al-Anad air base on Monday after attacking it from several approaches.
Al-Anad, which is about 30 miles north of Aden and sits at a major road junction, is seen as a critical access point to Yemen’s southern and western provinces.
The capture of the air base, which could not be confirmed independently, would be the second major defeat for the Houthis in less than a month. In another sign of the Houthis’ growing isolation, Yemen’s national airline told airport officials in Sana on Monday that it was stopping commercial flights to Sana indefinitely, said Khalid Al-Shayef, the director of Sana’s airport.
Saeed Al-Batati reported from Al-Mukalla, and Kareem Fahim from Cairo. Shuaib Almosawa contributed reporting from Sana, Yemen, and Eric Schmitt from Washington.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/world/middleeast/foreign-ground-troops-join-yemen-fight.html?smid=tw-nytimesworld&_r=1
By SAEED AL-BATATI and KAREEM FAHIMAUG. 3, 2015
AL-MUKALLA, Yemen — The United Arab Emirates has sent a military brigade to aid fighters battling Houthi rebels in Yemen, senior Yemeni and United States military officials said Monday, in a move that threatened to escalate a regional struggle between Iran and the monarchies of the Persian Gulf.
The Emirati troops landed in the southern port city of Aden in recent days, bringing with them tanks and other armored vehicles, the officials said. They quickly had an effect, participating in a rout of Houthi fighters on Monday from one of Yemen’s largest and most strategically important air bases, according to a senior Yemeni military commander.
A coalition of Sunni Arab states, led by Saudi Arabia and including the United Arab Emirates, has been waging a bombing campaign against the Houthis since late March — largely driven by the view that the Houthis, a Shiite-led movement from northern Yemen, is fighting on behalf of Iran, Saudi Arabia’s regional rival.
The Houthis acknowledge their alliance with Iran but deny that they are acting as its proxy. The Obama administration has said that the Saudis are exaggerating the ties between Tehran and the Houthi rebels, who control Sana, the capital, and other parts of Yemen. The criticism has not deterred the Saudis from carrying out thousands of airstrikes and imposing an air and maritime blockade around Yemen as part of an aggressive offensive that aid workers say has helped fuel a humanitarian crisis.
Apparently frustrated with an impasse in the combat — as well as growing international condemnation of airstrikes that have killed hundreds of civilians — the Saudi-led coalition recently increased its assistance to fighters battling the Houthis in Aden. Fighters recaptured the city from the Houthis last month. Some of the Yemeni fighters were trained in the Persian Gulf, and the United Arab Emirates supplied them with armored vehicles.
Small numbers of Saudi and Emirati troops have been fighting in Yemen for at least the last few weeks, according to southern Yemeni commanders. The arrival of the Emirati brigade, though, marked the first time a large foreign force had entered the ground war. “The U.A.E. and the Saudis are putting a lot into this,” said a senior United States military official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational reports. He said the two countries’ aggressive military intervention said a great deal about their concerns over Iran’s expanding influence.
The Houthis and their allies still control large portions of the country and remain deeply entrenched in the north. But they have faced intensifying pressure over the last few weeks as they have lost territory and as the Saudi coalition has committed more military resources.
In the south, the Houthis are struggling against a force that includes southern separatists, the fighters who trained in the Persian Gulf and now the troops from the United Arab Emirates.
After weeks of trying, the anti-Houthi fighters said they had captured the Al-Anad air base on Monday after attacking it from several approaches.
Al-Anad, which is about 30 miles north of Aden and sits at a major road junction, is seen as a critical access point to Yemen’s southern and western provinces.
The capture of the air base, which could not be confirmed independently, would be the second major defeat for the Houthis in less than a month. In another sign of the Houthis’ growing isolation, Yemen’s national airline told airport officials in Sana on Monday that it was stopping commercial flights to Sana indefinitely, said Khalid Al-Shayef, the director of Sana’s airport.
Saeed Al-Batati reported from Al-Mukalla, and Kareem Fahim from Cairo. Shuaib Almosawa contributed reporting from Sana, Yemen, and Eric Schmitt from Washington.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/world/middleeast/foreign-ground-troops-join-yemen-fight.html?smid=tw-nytimesworld&_r=1
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Why they did not use C17 for the unloading of mens and equipments, it would have been much faster - less physically demanding for mens - ?
They (GCC) must change to mental program.
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The C-130 can also do the job.
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Royal Jordanian Air Force in its way to King Fahad Air Base after conducting an operation inside Yemen.
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Not for AMX Leclerc Tank (UAE) or M1A2S Abrams Tank (KSA)
AMX Leclerc Tank Weight
- series 1 : 54.5 tonnes
- series 2 : 56.3 tonnes
- series XXI : 57.4 tonnes
M1A2S Abrams Weight
- M1A2 : 68 short tons (62 t)
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I think they were deliveried via sea.