Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz said Sunday that the Saudi-led air war was launched to foil a plot by a “sectarian group” to undermine security in the region.
The Saudi monarch was defending the military operation Riyadh has led against Yemeni militia since March 26, in an address read to clerics on his behalf by an adviser in the Muslim holy city of Makkah.
- Meanwhile, Yemen’s deposed president Ali Abdullah Saleh Monday declared his support for Houthi militias after raids from the Saudi-led coalition on his house in Sanaa.
“I was not an ally of Ansar Allah [the Houthis ] but today I am announcing from this place that Yemenis will be supportive of anyone who defends the nation’s resources,” the deposed leader said.
alarabiya.net
11/5/15
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Saudi forces and Houthis trade heavy fire along border...
ReplyDeleteYemen's Houthi fighters and Saudi Arabian forces have traded heavy artillery and rocket fire in border areas, residents say, a day before a proposed ceasefire.
The Houthis said they fired Katyusha rockets and mortars on the Saudi cities of Jizan and Najran on Monday, after the Saudis hit Saada and Hajjah provinces with more than 150 rockets, the Reuters news agency reported.
Saudi Arabia's civil defence department said that one Saudi person was killed in the shelling in Najran, which it said targeted a school and residence adjacent to a military post.
Another Saudi national and three expatriates were also injured in the attacks, the department said.
Planes from a coalition led by Saudi Arabia also struck positions of the Houthis, believed to be backed by Iran, in the central city of Taiz and in the oil-producing Marib province east of the capital, Sanaa. There were no immediate details on any casualties....aljazeera.com
11/5/15
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ReplyDeleteThe Saudi-owned Al Arabiya Hadath TV channel broadcast pictures of a column of tanks loaded onto military trucks and described it as "the arrival of reinforcements from the strike force to the border".
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Saudi FM says US-Gulf summit to focus on 'aggressive' Iran...
ReplyDeleteSaudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said a summit between Gulf Arab leaders and U.S. President Barack Obama later this week will focus on Iran's "aggressive" moves in the Middle East, Saudi state news agency SPA reported Tuesday.
Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter and a key U.S. ally for decades, has expressed concern at the rise of Iran's armed allies in sectarian conflicts throughout the region and Washington's perceived unwillingness to intervene.
"We see Iranian support for terrorist organisations and facilitating the work of terrorist organizations, so the challenge will be in how to coordinate U.S.-Gulf efforts in order to collectively face these aggressive moves on the part of Iran," Jubeir said, according to SPA.
Riyadh announced Sunday that King Salman would not attend the summit, a move widely perceived as a snub to the Obama administration as it pursues a nuclear agreement with the kingdom's arch-rival Iran....Reuters..........dailystar.com.lb
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