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Yemeni forces targets Saudi base in Najran region with ballistic missile
2018-04-10
[PRESSTV] Yemeni army troops, backed by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have fired a domestically-manufactured ballistic missile at a military base in 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...
’s southern border region of Najran
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. It is the capital of Najran Province and a favored target of Houthirocket forces....
in retaliation for the Saudi regime’s military campaign against the war-ravaged country, Yemeni media report.

Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network cited an unnamed military official as saying that Nahouqa military base had been targeted with short-range Zelzal-2 (Earthquake-2) missile on Monday evening, adding that the projectile had hit the designated target with high precision.

The report further said that gatherings of Saudi forces at the base and behind it were also targeted with multiple artillery shells, adding that the attack killed and maimed an unspecified number of Saudi troopers and mercenaries.

A Saudi military vehicle was also destroyed in al-Sadis military base in the same region after Yemeni forces hit it with rockets, the report added.

Meanwhile,
...back at the hanging, Butch continued with his last words, trying not to repeat himself too often......
in a separate attack on Yemen's western coastline, the Yemeni army troops and fighters from Houthi
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ...
Ansarullah movement managed to kill and wound a number of Saudi mercenaries after hitting their gatherings with artillery shells. According to al-Masirah, the attack also inflicted damage to military hardware and vehicles of the Saudi forces.

Additionally on Monday, at least nine Saudi mercenaries were killed after their vehicle hit a mine planted by Yemeni fighters in al-Ajasher desert in Yemen’s northern province of Jawf, al-Masirah further reported, citing an unnamed military source.

Al-Masirah also reported earlier in the day that Yemeni snipers had managed to kill at least eight Saudi mercenaries and maimed two others who were attempting to advance towards the gatherings of Yemeni forces in Asifera area in the southwestern province of Ta’izz.
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