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Air Forces shoot down Apache helicopter and spy drone over Jizan and Asir

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A.Abdulkareem

An Apache helicopter of Saudi-led Coalition`s occupying forces was shot down at Jahfan in Jizan, southern Saudi Arabia by  Anti-air missile for Yemen air defense

A military source told YemenExtra that An Apache helicopter`s crew members were killed. The source did not give further details on this Operation

On October 2017, A Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter operated by the United Arab Emirates Air Force (UAEAF) has crashed al-Jawf, killing the two pilots on board

on August 11 that a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk utility helicopter of the UAEAF had crashed in the Amqeel area of Ar Rawdah district in the south-central Yemeni province of Shabwah

Meanwhile, Yemeni air defense shot down, Today Thursday, US drone typed-25 C4 in Asir near to Alab dry port by a gun fire. The war media for Yemen Army will post footages for two operation in a few hours next

On 19 March, Yemeni air defense down US drone in Medi border district, and also dropped another spy plane of the aggression off Alab port in Aser on the 14th of the same month

The file photo shows the wreckage of a Saudi drone shot down by forces in Jizan location

This come accompanied by heavy losses and casualties on the pro-Saudi forces in western coast, killing and wounding numbers of mercenaries during destroying two loaded machineries by bombs and destroying an armored of the mercenaries by guided missile. Also, two armored of the mercenaries were destroyed in the West Coast

Even before the Saudi escalation, Sayyed Abdulmalik , in one of his speeches , warned the US-Saudi aggression from their continued closure of Yemeni ports, including the port of Al-Hodeidah, stressing the right of Yemen to take any sensitive steps in response

“we know the sensitive areas that we could target if the ports kept closed.” Sayyed Abdulmalik explains that “today the port of Al-Hodeidah is being threatened and we cannot turn a blind eye to that

Yemen has been since March 2015 under a brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition. Tens of thousands of Yemenis have been injured and martyred in Saudi-led strikes, with the vast majority of them are civilians

The coalition has been also imposing a blockade on the impoverished country’s ports and airports as a part of his aggression which is aimed at restoring power to fugitive former president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi