Yemen War Report – October 2, 2019: Houthis Deliver Devastating Blow To Saudi Arabi
In late September, Yemen’s Houthis carried out a large-scale operation against Saudi-led forces on the border with the southern Saudi province of Narjan. According to a spokesperson for the Armed Forces of the Houthi Government, the Houthis fully defeated at least 3 brigades of Saudi-backed forces. The Yemeni force killed 500 personnel, injured 2,000 others, destroyed 15 vehicles and seized a large number of weapons and military equipment.
Brig. Gen. Yahya Sari noted that the operation involved a coordinated effort of ground, missile, and air forces. They conducted at least 21 missile and drone strikes on positions of Saudi-led forces. As a result of the operation, the Houthis captured 350km2 from Saudi-led forces.
Brig. Gen. Sari said that aircraft of the Saudi-led coalition conducted at least 300 indiscriminate airstrikes in a desperate attempt to stop the Houthis’ advance. These strikes killed at least 200 coalition-backed personnel, according to the Houthis.
The Saudi-led coalition and mainstream media are now attempting to downplay recent military developments. However, videos and photos from the ground demonstrate that Saudi-led forces in fact suffered a devastating defeat in the area.
The Houthi advance on the Yemeni-Saudi border became a second major blow to Saudi Arabia in September. After almost 5 years of the Saudi invasion of Yemen, the Kingdom found itself in a no win situation.
At the same time, the Saudi-led coalition itself is steadily crumbling because of internal contradictions. The port city of Aden remains in the center of tensions between Saudi-backed and UAE-backed forces. Local sources say that the withdrawal of the best detachments of UAE-backed forces from frontlines in central and northern Yemen may be one of the reasons behind the success of the Houthi operation in the border area.
Good news indeed! It’s great to see the Saudi-led coaltion fail. Now if we can see the Saudi regime fall, that would be a major blow to the Anglo-Zionist Empire, especially if it falls into the Arc of Resistance.
long live the houtis! it merely showed that the expensive american supplied arms were no matched against the home grown weapons. the leather shoes of the saudis were no matched against the houtis sandals and sometimes the bare foot.
The Houthis are the Vietcong, or the Soviet partisans, or the Spanish guerillas fighting Bonaparte’s forces, or any one of numerous Chinese rag-tag peasant armies from history, of our age. Indomitable Lilliputians bringing down an Evil Gulliver.
The bbc were quick to ask for a proof. The irony.
I have never (knowingly) met a Houthi but I LOVE the Houthis. They will be immortalized in the pages of future history books. These people are straight up savage (in the good American sense of the word) warriors. They are the real deal.
The point is that Saudi Arabia does not possess a professional military as such, only a replica of the Roman Praetorian Guard, which was charged with defending the emperors. The chief task of the Saudi military is to defend the Saudi Royal House, the defense of the country coming second in importance. When the military was sent to fight a war in Yemen, it was a huge shock to the Saudi troops, who did not expect this, preferring to play the role of Royal bodyguards. I don’t see how the Saudis can win in Yemen.
Excellent news! These Saudi scum are losing big time everywhere. Shall be most interesting to see the impact of their pathetic misadventures upon the acceptance of Saudi rule over Mecca and Medina throughout the Muslim world.
The Outhouse of Saud is in trouble
Despite turning Yemen to rubble
As Tel Aviv’s pal
With rotten morale
The most hellish odors redouble
Friend just told me he’d been contacted by pal who is ex british military medic who told him he’d been called up in preparation for some middle east campaign.
It sounds like israel’s saudi quislings will need an injection of pindo military superiority and exceptionalism (don’t ever forget they are the exceptionals) in the form of additional american military support. I’m sure israel’s preeminent quisling trump will be happy to oblige.
Oh wait, he already has.
These little actions sadly mean nothing in the order of things. The Houthis have neither the airforce to protect their troops nor the navy to protect their flanks or supply their forces. And what forces they have on the ground are not trained, nor could be trained, to invade a nation like Saudi Arabia and hold it.
GCHQ and MI6 runs this game. Trump is just a useful idiot. Israel calls the shots. The Al Sauds were installed by the British military in the 1920s after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Their false Islamic Wahhabi doctrine was designed to divide the Middle East, which it has successfully done for decades.
Wahhabism, like Zionism, is a mental illness. Wahhabism and the Muslim Brotherhood ignore Mohammed’s teaching that violence can only be justified in self defence. Zionism ignores Talmudic teachings too.
Wahhabism and Zionism are essentially terrorist structures supported by a world wide Mafia set up. The Jewish oligarchs that run MI6 and Britain will do everything in their power to oppress the Shiia, and support Salafist Wahhabism to destroy any chance of peace.