DUBAI: Yemeni forces have taken control of new areas in Saada province following fierce clashes with Iranian-backed Houthi militants, Saudi state-news channel Al-Ekhbariya reported.
“The army liberated the areas of Azhour and Al-Hajjla and the village of Bani Meen and Hanaka other areas on outskirts of the Razih directorate, located to the north-west of Saada,” commander of the seventh brigade border guards, Col. Hamoud Hisham, said in a statement on the national army’s official website “26 September.”
The military official also said more than 30 militants were killed over the past two days following Arab coalition airstrikes targeting Houthi headquarters and weapons’ caches in Razih.
Yemeni army forces control five new areas in Saada province
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