Yemen - Civil War

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I know ! But by air (C17) it would have been much better and it would have made a very good training in real combat situation.



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Shell kills Saudi soldier on Yemen border

Soldier loyal to Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi takes position at an army post in al-Abr on the border with Saudi Arabia. (Reuters)

AFP, Riyadh
Thursday, 6 August 2015

A Saudi Arabian soldier has been killed in shelling on the border with Yemen, the military said late Wednesday, adding to a rising toll in the kingdom’s south over the past week.

“He was hit by a projectile in the sector of Jazan,” a Saudi border district, said a statement from the Saudi-led coalition which has been bombing rebels in Yemen for more than four months in support of exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.

On Sunday a civilian died when a shell from Yemen hit his house in Najran, another area along the Saudi border.

And last Friday rocket fire from Yemen killed three soldiers and a paramilitary along the frontier, in the deadliest such incident for several weeks.

The cross-border barrages coincide with advances since late July by anti-rebel fighters who recaptured the southern city of Aden from the Iran-backed Houthi militia group.

On Tuesday they also took back the Al-Anad airbase north of Aden, using heavy armor supplied by the coalition after hundreds of Gulf Arab troops landed in the port city to bolster the fightback by local forces opposed rebel groups.

The Saudi soldier brings the number of people killed in shelling and skirmishes along the Saudi frontier with Yemen to at least 50 since the coalition campaign began on March 26.

Most of the casualties have been soldiers.

In Yemen, the United Nations says the war has killed nearly 4,000 people, half of them civilians.

Last Update: Thursday, 6 August 2015 KSA 10:45 - GMT 07:45
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/08/06/Shell-kills-Saudi-soldier-on-Yemen-border-.html

 

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Aden gets first civil flight in four months

Fighters against Shiite rebels known as Houthis gather in front of the airport in the port city of Aden, Yemen, Thursday, July 16, 2015 (Reuters).

Reuters
Thursday, 6 August 2015

A commercial flight touched down in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Thursday for the first time since conflict shut the city's airport more than four months ago, airport officials said.

"At around 1 P.M. local time, a Yemenia Airways plane arrived, carrying 150 citizens who had fled the city by boat to Djibouti back home, in the first commercial flight to Aden in over four months," Muneef al-Zuhairi, a militia commander and deputy director of the airport told Reuters.

Gulf Arab countries have backed with air strikes and weapons deliveries a northward advance by fighters from southern Yemen fighters. They are trying to push back the Iranian-allied Houthi group, which took over the capital, Sanaa, in September.

Heavy fighting had rendered Aden's airport and sea ports mostly inaccessible since the Houthis pushed into the city on March 26, triggering the Arab military intervention, an exodus of refugees and severe shortages of food, fuel and medicine.

However, the city was seized by fighters opposed to the Houthis last month, and the country's exiled government in Saudi Arabia says it will use it as a base to run the country.

Also on Thursday, a Red Cross plane landed in Aden carrying 30 southern fighters who had been detained on the battlefield and moved to Sanaa, al-Zuhairi said. They will be exchanged for seven Houthi military commanders held in Aden.

It was the first prisoner exchange involving an international organization and may signal progress toward ending the conflict which has killed more than 4,000 people.

Anti-Houthi forces continued to make gains on Thursday, fully surrounding the provincial capital of Lahej province, Zinjibar, northeast of Aden and massing their forces before an expected push toward the central city of Taiz.


Last Update: Friday, 7 August 2015 KSA 23:08 - GMT 20:08
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/08/06/Yemen-s-Aden-gets-first-commercial-flight-in-over-four-months.html

 

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Yemen says Taez will be freed in ‘next two days’

In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 3, 2015, fighters against Shiite rebels known as Houthis gather at the road leading to Al-Anad base near Aden in the southern province of Lahej, Yemen. (AP)

By Staff Writer | Al Arabiya News
Friday, 7 August 2015

Yemen's Interior Minister, Maj. Gen. Abdou Mohamed al-Hudhaifi has said on Friday that there is progress on three fronts in Taez by the Yemeni army and Popular Resistance Forces and that the area would likely be freed from Houthi “in the next two days.”

Hudhaifi said in a statement to Al Arabiya News’ sister channel Al Hadath that more than 75 per cent of the people of Taez recognize the legitimacy of the government and reject the presence of Houthi militias and the foces of ousted Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

He also added that there some areas which were the exception but that they did not pose an overall threat to the progress made by the army and the resistance forces.

Hudhaifi told Al Hadath that there are currently three fronts where battles are currently being front – in the north, west and south – where relative peace prevails in the eastern parts. He also added that the Houthi and Saleh militias are attempting to focus their efforts on the east but that the rebel group is slowly heading to a state of confusion and collapse.

Hudhaifa predicts that Taez will be completely freed from militias “during the next two days.”

French hostage freed
Meanwhile, French hostage Isabelle Prime, who was released in Yemen after nearly six months of captivity, arrived in neighboring Oman on Friday on her way home.

The French presidency announced late on Thursday that 30-year-old Prime, who worked as a consultant on a World Bank-funded project in Yemen, had been freed by her captors.

Since Prime's abduction, the situation in Yemen has become more complex. Yemen’s President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi fled into exile in March after Iranian-allied Houthi fighters, who had seized the capital Sanaa last September, advanced towards his southern stronghold in Aden.

Yemen's Arab neighbours have intervened in the country to halt the advance of the Houthis - Shi'ite Muslims from the north. The Houthis have been pounded with hundreds of air strikes for more than four months now.

(With AFP)

Last Update: Saturday, 8 August 2015 KSA 00:14 - GMT 21:14
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/08/07/Yemen-Interior-Minister-says-Taez-will-be-freed-in-next-two-days-.html

 

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Saudi Arabia sends reinforcements, dozens more tanks to Yemen — RT News

Saudi Arabia has sent dozens more armored vehicles and trained troops to help the supporters of Yemen’s President Hadi fight Houthi rebels in the country following months of air bombardments, which have so far failed to break the deadlock between rival camps on the ground.

According to reports from the ground dozens of Riyadh tanks and other armored vehicles entered Yemen in the past 48 hours via Wadia, a border post in northern Yemen.

Another military source added that the new supplies were intended for the “popular resistance and the national army,” loyal to the exiled Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled to neighboring Saudi Arabia earlier this year.

The military hardware is reportedly moving toward Marib and Shabwa provinces, where the resistance continues the battle “to expel the Houthis and their allies.”

Earlier this week some 2,800 Arab coalition troops landed in Yemen. The deployment, according to reports, included Saudi special-operations forces, intelligence and logistics personnel in addition to the units from the United Arab Emirates.

It is the biggest military contingent of Gulf States sent to Yemen as the coalition has so far preferred to carry out airstrikes against the Houthis. A Saudi-led coalition has been carrying out strikes since late March, but thus far the forces have been locked in stalemate.

Amid the ongoing war, Yemen is facing a serious humanitarian crisis. According to the UN, more than 1,600 civilians have been killed, over 3,800 injured and more than a million have been displaced.

 

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Yemen fighters ‘liberate’ southern province

The fighters were based in the southern port of Aden and made gains against the Houthis in Dalea following heavy fighting. (File photo: AFP)

By Staff writer | Al Arabiya News
Sunday, 9 August 2015

Pro-government forces in Yemen, strengthened by tanks newly supplied by a Saudi-led coalition, announced on Saturday they “liberated” the southern province of Dalea from Houthi militia control, according to Al Arabiya News Channel.

The fighters, loyal to President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi, were based in the southern port of Aden and made gains against the Houthis in Dalea following heavy fighting. There is yet no word on casualties.

The gains followed an offensive launched on Saturday to retake the Houthi-held capital of Abyan province.

A two-pronged drive on the southern province’s capital of Zinjibar was launched from the north and south, military sources told Agence France-Presse.

It came two days after tribal and military sources said Saudi Arabia, leading an Arab coalition air war on the Iran-backed Houthi militia group, had sent new military equipment including tanks to Yemen.

The tanks were part of a package of reinforcements including armored vehicles and personnel carriers as well as hundreds of Yemeni soldiers trained in kingdom, a military source said.

This week has seen heavy fighting in Zinjibar and heavy coalition air strikes against positions of the 15th Army Brigade allied to the Houthis.

The coalition has since March 26 supported loyalists with air strikes to halt advances by the Houthis, who seized Sanaa last year before pressing south into the port city of Aden.

But pro-government forces retook Aden last month and seized the key airbase of Al-Anad to its north on Tuesday.

Aden was Hadi's last refuge before he fled into exile with his government in Saudi Arabia in March.

The International Committee of the Red Cross head arrived Saturday in Sanaa at the start of a three-day visit to assess the "dire humanitarian situation" in the country.

(With AFP)

Last Update: Sunday, 9 August 2015 KSA 08:13 - GMT 05:13
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/08/09/Yemen-forces-liberate-southern-province.html

 

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Analysis: Emirati armoured brigade spearheads Aden breakout
Jeremy Binnie - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
06 August 2015

An Emirati Leclerc main battle tank fitted with the AZUR urban warfare protection package advances towards Al-Anad Air Base on 3 August. Source: PA Photos

A column of Emirati Leclercs and BMP-3s pauses during the advance from Aden to Al-Anad. (PA Photos)

The impasse in Yemen's conflict appears to have been broken by the deployment of a powerful Emirati armoured formation: a logistical triumph that has helped pro-government forces push out of the southern port city of Aden and capture Al-Anad Air Base 48 km to the northwest.

The military deployment has not been announced by the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) or covered by the country's media, but its scale has become increasingly apparent as more photographs and videos have emerged from southern Yemen since 12 July, when Oshkosh M-ATV mine-resistant ambush protected (MRAP) vehicles were spotted in Aden for the first time during the battle to secure the city's airport.

The M-ATV is used by Emirati and Saudi special forces, but the vehicles in southern Yemen are crewed by men wearing civilian clothing, raising the possibility that they are Yemenis who have been trained and equipped by the Saudi-led coalition that has been bombing Yemen since late March in an attempt to reinstall President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

By the end of July it had become apparent that the UAE had deployed regular military forces. Two BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles were filmed by an Al-Jazeera news crew on 28 July and a Leclerc armoured recovery vehicle was photographed in Aden about the same time.

While these vehicles could potentially have been landed by the C-17 airlifters that the UAE confirmed were flying into the international airport, albeit on humanitarian rather than military missions, it subsequently became apparent that they were part of what must be an amphibious landing on a scale not seen in the Middle East since the liberation of Kuwait in 1991.

By 3 August the UAE had landed Leclerc tanks, additional BMP-3s (seemingly not carrying any infantry), at least one 155 mm G6 self-propelled howitzer, and Agrab mortar carriers. One video clip showed nine Leclercs driving out of Aden, meaning at least one tank battalion (squadron) has been landed.

Some - but not all - the Leclercs in Yemen are equipped with the AZUR urban warfare protection package. The UAE is known to have bought at least 13 AZUR kits, so the presence of Leclercs without the additional armour suggests a second battalion has been deployed to Yemen.

These tank battalions are presumably part of an armoured brigade that includes at least one battalion of BMP-3s in addition to G6 and Agrab batteries and all the associated support vehicles, including large numbers of Tatra trucks.

Photographs from Aden suggest the UAE military has used the roll-on/roll-off terminal next to the refinery at Little Aden as its main beachhead. Its navy has several tank landing craft as well as two larger 80 m amphibious warfare vessels that were almost certainly involved in the operation.

It is unclear if Swift , a former US naval logistics vessel that is now operated by the UAE and visited Aden on 29 July, contributed to the amphibious operation. The UAE's official news agency reported that a ship carrying humanitarian supplies docked in Aden that day.

Intermingled with vehicles operated by allied Yemeni forces, the Emirati armoured column moved northwards up the N1 highway towards Al-Anad Air Base on 3 August. Later that day President Hadi announced the base had been liberated. Al-Anad has been bombed heavily by the Saudi-led coalition, but once its runway is patched up, it could become a new forward operating base for the Emirati brigade and allied Yemeni forces.

After the fall of Al-Anad, pro-government forces reportedly continued to push northwards towards Taiz province, while a spokesman for UN special envoy Ould Cheikh Ahmed said on 4 August that the warring parties had shown renewed interest in a peace plan.
Analysis: Emirati armoured brigade spearheads Aden breakout - IHS Jane's 360

 

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