Yemeni forces take out mercenaries of Saudi Arabia: Yemeni media

Yemeni forces have killed a number of mercenaries fighting on behalf of Saudi Arabia in Yemen’s west, Yemeni media report.

A Yemeni military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Ansarullah news portal that Yemeni forces destroyed an armored vehicle with a guided missile in al-Fazza area, south of Yemen’s western province of al-Hudaydah, on Thursday. The report added that the vehicle belonged to the UAE — a member of the Saudi-led coalition waging war on Yemen — and that all passengers were killed in the attack.

Saudi troops and their mercenaries are currently pushing to seize the Yemeni port of Hudaydah, through which the bulk of international humanitarian aid enters war-torn Yemen.

A separate report by Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network on Thursday said that Yemeni snipers had slain at least six Saudi-led mercenaries in Yemen’s western province of Ta’izz on Wednesday, adding that they had also managed to destroy a military vehicle in the Jabal Habashi area, killing an unspecified number of mercenaries travelling in it.

The report added that Yemeni forces also attacked gatherings of mercenaries with heavy artillery fire in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern province of Jizan, killing an unspecified number of them and inflicting damage on their hardware and equipment.

Also on Thursday, al-Masirah posted images showing the corpses of slain Sudanese soldiers serving as mercenaries for Saudi Arabia in al-Majaz Mountains in Saudi Arabia’s southern province of Asir. The report said that they had been killed during a retaliatory attack by Yemeni forces a few days earlier.

Saudi Arabia and its allies launched the war on Yemen in March 2015 to install a former regime that had been loyal to Riyadh.

‘UN peace plan envisages Yemeni disarmament’

In related news, Reuters reported on Thursday that it had seen a draft of a peace plan, drafted by the UN, for ending the war on Yemen.

The plan envisages Yemen giving up its ballistic missiles in return for an end to the bombing campaign by the Saudi-led coalition, and a transitional governance agreement.

According to Reuters, Yemeni forces must hand over all “heavy and medium weapons including ballistic missiles.”

“No [Yemeni] armed groups shall be exempt from disarmament.”

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