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| Saudi Military Posts Falling apart on Borders with Yemen |
| 2015-08-20 |
| [ALMANAR.LB] The Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... army and Popular Committees forces have achieved a qualitative progress on the border with Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and seized control over new sites oversees the kingdom's territory. It's amusing the way the Hadi loyalists advancing north are ignored, while the Houthis occupying a few hills looking into Saudi territory are big news. Army and Committees sources confirmed to AL-Manar TV that the national military has fully controlled the Al-Shurfa area on the border with Saudi province of Najran after storming the military post in the region and its checkpoint. The sources added that Al-Shurfa is a strategic site overlooking the Najran province, which allows the Yemeni fighters to establish control over it using medium weapons. In a similar development, the Yemeni army forces and the Popular Committees stormed the Saudi al-Hajer military site and destroyed the control tower inside it after all garrison fled away Saudi Soldier Killed in Cross-Border Fire from Yemen [AnNahar] A Saudi soldier was killed in cross-border fire from Yemen on Wednesday, the kingdom's interior ministry said, in the second such incident in a week. Hamad al-Kaabi was killed after heavy gunfire hit a border post in the southwestern region of Jazan, said the statement published by the official SPA news agency. |
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