Saudi Arabia biggest loser in war against Yemen

The bloody campaign led by the regime in Saudi Arabia against Yemen will enter its sixth year next month, and Riyadh has almost entirely failed to achieve its goals due to resistance manifested by Yemeni fighters who have not only successfully fought back but also inflicted significant damage upon the Saudi war machine.

On January 25, Yemeni army troops and allied fighters from Popular Committees launched a massive offensive, code-named Bonyan al-Marsoos (Firm Structure), to confront a major act of aggression by the Saudi-led forces that were targeting the capital Sana’a.

The Yemeni counterattack not only thwarted the planned Saudi offensive but also liberated all areas of Nihm district, in Sana’a province, from the grips of Saudi-led forces. The massive operation was backed by drone cover.

Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network, citing spokesman for Yemen’s Armed Forces Brigadier General Yahya Saree, said in a detailed report on Monday that Bonyan al-Marsoos operation led to the liberation of vast areas in the northern province of Jawf and the central province of Ma’rib.

Yemeni army soldiers foil a major offensive by Saudi-led militiamen against the capital Sana’a.

During a press conference, Saree added that Yemeni forces managed to liberate a total of 2,500 square meters of land from the clutches of invaders.

The Yemeni forces had also managed to seize dozens of tanks, armored vehicles, military vehicles, artillery, and weapons stores from the Saudi-led forces, he added.

Yemeni air defense forces and their allies have targeted and shot down a Saudi-led coalition reconnaissance drone in the skies over Saudi Arabia’s border Jizan region.

Saree said at least 1,500 forces of the Saudi-led coalition had been killed and 1,830 others sustained wounds in the operation. Nearly 170 others were detained by Yemeni forces, he added.

The Firm Structure operation, which began on January 30, also led to the destruction of 17 battalions of the enemy forces, further added the Yemeni army’s top official.

Saree said the massive operation involved at least 41 aerial attacks, conducted by Yemeni combat drones, against positions of Saudi-led forces both inside Yemen and inside Saudi Arabia.

According to the report, Yemeni forces also conducted 21 missile attacks against targets in airports of Jizan and Najran, two southern provinces of Saudi Arabia, and that of Abha, the provincial capital of Saudi province of Asir. The missile attacks also targeted the Saudi Aramco oil facilities, which had also come under attack by Yemeni missiles and drones last year.

Yemeni forces take control of large areas in Nihm district in Sana’a Province and Al Jawf Province.

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Raghda Sawas