At least 15 Houthi fighters were killed in a Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces’ drone strike in Al-Dhale’a, Saudi news outlet Al Hadath said on Saturday, while fighting was still underway in the southern Yemeni province.
The Al Hadath Channel reported a drone strike conducted by the Yemeni forces against Houthi fighters in Al-Dhale’a. No immediate information was available about the timing, location, or the possible number of additional casualties resulting from the incident.
Al-Dhale’a has long been an active frontline in the long-running Yemeni war with Houthi fighters clashing with the forces and allied groups loyal to the Yemeni government recognized internationally and backed by the Saudi-led coalition.
Saturday’s reported killing marks one in several ongoing clashes between Yemeni government forces and Houthi fighters in recent days, some of which have resulted in Yemeni government troops’ casualties, according to the Council on Foreign Relations, citing the Yemeni Ministry of Defense.
The Arabian Peninsula nation of Yemen, which is already suffering from one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, has been a battlefield since the Houthi rebels took control of the capital city of Sana’a from internationally recognized government in 2014 and in 2015, the Saudi-led coalition intervened to support Yemen’s government.
However, despite a recent truce agreed upon between all fighting sides in Yemen in April 2022 under the auspices of the UN, intermittent fighting between Houthi forces and the government of Yemen has persisted in certain regions of the war-torn nation, mostly resulting in casualties to the Yemeni army according to officials of the Yemeni army themselves.
