Press TV - Yemeni army soldiers, backed by fighters from allied Popular Committees, haveshot dead three Saudi troopers in the kingdoms southwesternborder region of Jizan, in retaliation for the Riyadh regimes military campaign against the crisis-hit country.
Yemeni forces shot and killed twoSaudi troopersat al-Farizah militarybase of the region, located 967kilometerssouthwest of the capitalRiyadh, on Monday evening, Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported.
Earlier in the day, three civilians sustained injuries when Saudi military aircraft carried out an airstrike against a residential neighborhood in Ar Rahidah town of the southwestern Yemeniprovince of Ta'izz.
Two civilians were also killed and four others wounded when Saudi warplanes struck an area in the Maqbanah district of the same Yemeni province.
Separately, Yemeni soldiers and their allies lobbed a barrage of artillery rounds at a gathering of Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal tothe resigned Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, in the Mawza' district of Taizz Province.
An unnamed military official told Yemens official Saba news agency on Monday that the attack had left dozens of mercenaries killed or wounded.
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This photo taken on March 16, 2017 shows Yemeni girls outside a school, which was damaged in a Saudi airstrike in the southern Yemeni city of Taizz. (Photo by AFP)[/caption]Moreover, Yemeni forces targeted a Saudi reconnaissance drone as it was flying over the Midi district in Yemen's northwesternprovince of Hajjah.
Saudi Arabia has been incessantly pounding Yemen since March 2015 in an attempt to bring back Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh, to power and to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement. The Riyadh regime has, however, failed to reach its goals despite suffering great expense.
The military aggression has claimed the lives of more than 12,000 people, most of them civilians.
