Yemen/ Saudi update 1/03/2017..Saudis fail to take control of base in Najran

The Saudi army and US-hired mercenaries attempt an offensive to reclaim territories in the hands of the Huties, the Saudis and mercenaries end up in a disorganized and shameful retreat.

Yemen – Huties, true heroes of flesh and bone, humble and barefoot.

Yemen was invaded by Saudi Arabia’s army, mercenaries hired by the US and Israel and Al Qaeda also supported by the US and Israel, the Hutie group organized in self-defense groups, not only opposed a fierce resistance to the invasion, now has the Three invading groups in full retreat from Yemeni territory, the example of the Huties has gotten into trouble for the Saudi dictatorship, because Saudi tribes watching the example of the Huties are rising in arms against the Saudi dictatorship.

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Saudi-Backed Militias Fail to Take Control of Key Military Base in Najran Province

The mercenaries hired by the Riyadh government attempted to take control of a strategic military base in the city of Najran South of the kingdom, but failed due to the Yemeni forces’ firm resistance.

The Saudi-hired mercenaries tried to capture the al-Shabakeh military base, but were defeated after hours of clashes with the Yemeni army and popular forces.

The Yemeni forces destroyed two military vehicles of the Saudi mercenaries in the clashes.

The Saudi-backed militias received aerial support from the Saudi Air Force during the battle.

The Yemeni army and popular forces seized al-Shabakeh military base from the Saudi border guards last summer.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Yemeni army and popular forces repelled a large-scale attack by the pro-Saudi mercenaries on their military positions in Boqa desert, inflicting heavy losses on them.

“The Yemeni forces killed at least 18 pro-Saudi militias in fierce clashes in Boqa desert,” the Arabic-language media quoted an unnamed informed source as saying.

The source noted that several other pro-Saudi militias were also injured in tough battle with the Yemeni forces.

In a relevant development on Sunday, the Yemeni army and the popular forces managed to inflict a large number of casualties on Saudi-backed militias, including two senior commanders, in a special military operation in Sana’a's Ninth District.

Mohammad Mahmoud al-Hazrani, field commander of Brigade 310 of the pro-Saudi militias army, and Omran, military commander of the Reforms Party (Hezb al-Islah), were killed in the Yemeni forces’ special operations.

A sum of 23 newly-established military positions of Saudi-backed militias were destroyed in Hid al-Zahab region.

At least 38 Saudi-hired mercenaries were killed and 67 others were wounded in clashes with the Yemeni forces.

A senior al-Qaeda commander along with a number of other terrorists were killed in al-Arhab region too.

Also on Sunday, the Yemeni army and popular forces took control of three more military bases of the Saudi army in al-Jawf province in the Northeastern part of Yemen while their comrades blocked the advances of the kingdom’s mercenaries in Shabwah province.

The Yemeni forces captured three Saudi bases in the towns of Khob and al-Sha’af in al-Jawf province, killing 30 military men.

Meantime, the Yemeni forces prevented pro-Saudi mercenaries from making advances in al-Hajr district in the town of Asilan in Shabwah province.

At least 30 pro-Saudi militias were killed and wounded in Shabwah province and sustained heavy losses in the Yemeni attacks.

Also on Saturday, informed battlefield sources disclosed that the Yemeni army and popular forces continued their advances in Ta’iz province, and killed several more pro-Saudi mercenaries in fierce clashes.

“At least 11 pro-Saudi militias were killed and several more were wounded in tough battle in Ta’iz province,” the Arabic-language al-Massirah news website quoted informed Yemeni military sources as saying.

Meantime, another Yemeni battlefield source said that six Saudi mercenaries were killed in the Eastern part of Gabal al-Han in al-Zobab region of Ta’iz province.

“Another four pro-Saudi mercenaries were also killed in al-Salou region in Ta’iz province,” the source added.

He, meantime, said that the Yemeni army’s artillery units pounded the pro-Saudi militias’ gathering centers in the Southern part of the village of al-Hariqieh.

“Several mercenaries were also killed in the Yemeni army’s artillery attack on their gathering centers in the Ninth District of the city of Sana’a,” the source added.

More than 12,800 Yemenis, including women and children, have been killed in the course of the Saudi military aggression against neighboring Yemen since March 2015.

This is while international right groups have repeatedly condemned Riyadh over its onslaught against Yemen. They have also warned of a humanitarian crisis in the impoverished country.

The Saudi campaign was launched with the aim of reinstating Yemen’s former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.

Hadi, a loyal Riyadh ally, resigned last year and fled to the Saudi capital. He later returned to the country’s port city of Aden.

Hadi has rejected a United Nations peace roadmap, saying the initiative favors Ansarullah movement, while the movement is the main popular base which has been defending the country against the Saudi invasion.

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Arab Analyst: ISIL Plans to Target Saudi Oil Facilities, Sends Message to Erdogan through Attack on Turkey’s Resorts

Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm newspaper, warned that ISIL intends to take revenge from Saudi Arabia and Turkey and plans to attack against Saudi oil facilities, adding that the terrorist group’s attack on Turkey’s resort towns bore a vital a message to Ankara.

“(ISIL ringleader) al-Baghdadi has called for attacking the oil facilities and interests of the countries which are members of the anti-ISIL coalition and inflicting a large casualties on them,” Atwan wrote on Tuesday.

He said al-Baghdadi’s order was directed at Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf Arab countries or Libya.

Atwan referred to the recent developments in the region after the Syrian and Iraqi armies and their allies’ victories against the ISIL and the terrorist group’s plots to revenge, and said, “Turkey may sustain the most damage of this development; specially after it joined the anti-ISIL war after years of delay.”

He added that the recent terrorist blasts and attacks in Turkey’s resort destinations and the death of foreign tourists is a clear message to the Turkish officials that the country will no more be safe.

Atwan had in a different article on Monday also referred to the Turkish government’s hasty policies and positions in the past few months, and said the country has created many enemies for itself and is moving towards a bloody quagmire of terrorist attacks.

Atwan pointed to the recent terrorist attack in Turkey in which 39 people, mostly foreign tourists, were killed and over 70 others were wounded, and said, “This situation shows that the attack against the night club had been carefully plotted by not one person but by a large organization.”

“What we understand from the recent rapid developments is that Turkey is moving towards the bloody quagmire of terrorism due to its hasty policies and positions, losing the compass of leadership and creating the largest number of enemies for itself all throughout the history, specially among the neighbors,” he said.

The ISIL claimed responsibility for the attack on a nightclub in Istanbul that killed 39 people on New Year’s Eve.

Police have arrested eight suspects in connection with the attack, which took place in the early hours of New Year’s Day, but said they were still hunting for the gunman.

A blurry picture of the alleged attacker released on Monday shows a young dark-haired man in a black coat. Authorities believe the man may have a central Asian background.