US-Saudi-led coalition’s defeats despite its modern weapon

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On June 7, Yemeni army keeps responding to the Saudi-led coalition’s campaign that has been incessantly pounding Yemen since March 2015 in an attempt to crush the popular Houthi Ansarullah movement and reinstate former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who is a staunch ally of the Riyadh regime. The Arab kingdom has also imposed a blockade on its impoverished neighbor, causing a dire humanitarian situation. 

They carried out two offensive operations on the paid fighters’ gatherings , leaving dead and wounded , targeted gatherings of Saudi soldiers and paid fighters  with a salvo of Katysha missiles and artillery shelling, killing and wounded , destroyed a military mechanism, loaded with paid fighters with an explosive device and shot dead a paid fighter in # Najran, according to a military official.

  They also foiled six intensive advances of the paid fighters , which lasted from dawn to the noon and were backed heavily by the coalition’s warplanes, killing and wounding dozens and destroying ten mechanisms , targeted their mechanism , leaving dead and wounded, carried out an offensive and  massive operation on the paid fighters’ sites , leaving fourteen of them , and retook many areas in addition to seizing AL-Obaid village in # AL-Jawf.

Their engineering unit destroyed two mechanisms, loaded with paid fighters, with an explosive device , leaving dead and wounded in # Midi, it confirmed.

Above all, they targeted gathering of paid fighters with missile and artillery shelling and foiled an attempt of advancing , killing and wounding many of them in # Lahj.

In March 2015, Saudi Arabia and a coalition of its regional allies — mainly the united Arab Emirates and Jordan — started  a war against Yemen with the declared aim of crushing the Houthi Ansarullah movement, who had taken over from the staunch Riyadh ally and fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, while also seeking to secure the Saudi border with its southern neighbor. Three years and over 600,000 dead and injured Yemeni people and  prevented the patients from travelling abroad for treatment and blocked the entry of medicine into the war-torn country, the war has yielded little to that effect.

The United States has provided billions of dollars in arms sales to countries participating in the Saudi-led coalition that is fighting a war in Yemen against the Yemeni joint forces  and contributing to one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, Oona Hathaway, Director of the Center for Global Legal Challenges at Yale Law School, wrote in a report, in cooperation with a number of Yale Law School students, in Just Security website.

A senior professor of international law at Yale Law School underlined that the US continued sales of arms and military equipment to the Saudi-led coalition which were used in the Yemen war is a clear instance of human rights violation.

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