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| Saudi Arabia puts its troops on high alert |
| 2023-11-01 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Saudi Arabia has put its army and air defense forces on high alert, Bloomberg reported, citing its own sources. The kingdom’s authorities made this decision after clashes between the military and rebels from Yemen belonging to the Ansar Allah movement (Houthis). This included an incident a few weeks ago when rebels tried to launch a missile attack on Saudi Arabia, but the attack was repelled. In addition, the decision was influenced by the incident with the death of four Saudi soldiers in the southern province of Jizan, which is located on the border with Yemen. New clashes erupted after October 19, when the Houthis fired cruise missiles and drones at Israel. These assets were intercepted by an American destroyer in the Red Sea. The publication also states that on October 30, Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khaled bin Salman Al Saud met with senior officials from the administration of US President Joe Biden in Washington . The parties discussed the consequences of the war between Israel and Hamas, as well as the situation in Yemen. As Regnum reported , in April 2023, the Yemeni authorities and representatives of the Ansar Allah group, through the mediation of Oman, entered into an agreement to extend the truce for six months. Compared to previous agreements, the new documents spelled out additional conditions, including the opening of additional routes from the airport in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, as well as the lifting of restrictions on the passage of ships to the port of Hodeidah and the lifting of road blockades. |
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