Two Saudi soldiers captured by Yemen rebels: Coalition

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Two Saudi soldiers captured by Yemen rebels: Coalition | Zee News
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 - 03:27
Riyadh: Two Saudi Arabian soldiers have been captured by rebels in Yemen, the Saudi-led coalition confirmed on Monday, vowing to bring them back.

"We have evidence that they are alive and they are in captivity with the militia," Brigadier General Ahmed al-Assiri told AFP after Huthi rebels in Yemen last Wednesday broadcast footage of a man claiming to be a captured soldier.

Dressed in military fatigues, he identified himself as Sergeant Ibrahim Hakmi of a Saudi brigade based in the kingdom`s Jazan border area.

On the rebels` Al-Masirah television, the man said he was being held along with several other Saudi soldiers.

Assiri said it is a violation of the Geneva Convention to present captives in the media, but the rebels released videos of two soldiers.

"We will do all that is necessary.... to find them and to bring them back."

A Saudi-led Arab coalition has conducted air strikes on rebel positions across Yemen since March and has provided troops, training and heavy weapons to local forces seeking to reinstate exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.

There have been deadly skirmishes along the Saudi-Yemen border, which Saudi Arabia has reinforced with troops.

Assiri said the two soldiers were captured at different times, when they became lost and ended up captured on the Yemeni side of the frontier.

"We have three more missing in action. So far we don`t have any evidence about if they are alive or they were killed somewhere in the border."

He said the coalition has also arrested "some fighters" from the rebel side "but we are respecting the Geneva Convention."

Riyadh formed the coalition in March to support Hadi in response to fears that the Huthis would take over all of Yemen and move it into the orbit of Sunni Saudi Arabia`s Shiite regional rival Iran.

The United Nations says nearly 4,900 people, including a vast number of civilians, have been killed in Yemen since late March.

At least 66, mostly soldiers, have died in shelling from Yemen and skirmishes along the Saudi frontier.

AFP

 

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Two Saudi soldiers captured by Yemen rebels: Coalition | Zee News
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 - 03:27
Riyadh: Two Saudi Arabian soldiers have been captured by rebels in Yemen, the Saudi-led coalition confirmed on Monday, vowing to bring them back.

"We have evidence that they are alive and they are in captivity with the militia," Brigadier General Ahmed al-Assiri told AFP after Huthi rebels in Yemen last Wednesday broadcast footage of a man claiming to be a captured soldier.

Dressed in military fatigues, he identified himself as Sergeant Ibrahim Hakmi of a Saudi brigade based in the kingdom`s Jazan border area.

On the rebels` Al-Masirah television, the man said he was being held along with several other Saudi soldiers.

Assiri said it is a violation of the Geneva Convention to present captives in the media, but the rebels released videos of two soldiers.

"We will do all that is necessary.... to find them and to bring them back."

A Saudi-led Arab coalition has conducted air strikes on rebel positions across Yemen since March and has provided troops, training and heavy weapons to local forces seeking to reinstate exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.

There have been deadly skirmishes along the Saudi-Yemen border, which Saudi Arabia has reinforced with troops.

Assiri said the two soldiers were captured at different times, when they became lost and ended up captured on the Yemeni side of the frontier.

"We have three more missing in action. So far we don`t have any evidence about if they are alive or they were killed somewhere in the border."

He said the coalition has also arrested "some fighters" from the rebel side "but we are respecting the Geneva Convention."

Riyadh formed the coalition in March to support Hadi in response to fears that the Huthis would take over all of Yemen and move it into the orbit of Sunni Saudi Arabia`s Shiite regional rival Iran.

The United Nations says nearly 4,900 people, including a vast number of civilians, have been killed in Yemen since late March.

At least 66, mostly soldiers, have died in shelling from Yemen and skirmishes along the Saudi frontier.

AFP

Saudi Sergeant Ibrahim Hakmi

 

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Gunmen attack Saudi police checkpoints, killing 3 - The Hindu

Updated: September 25, 2015 15:32 IST

Authorities in Saudi Arabia say gunmen opened fire at two police checkpoints in a northern province, killing at least three people.

The state-run Saudi Press Agency quoted an unnamed police official in Hail province as saying the shootings happened Thursday at two separate police posts. The official identified the dead as two civilians and one soldier.

The official said an investigation has been launched.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks. However, Saudi Arabia sees a series of recent assaults claimed by affiliates of the extremist Islamic State group. The kingdom is taking part in a U.S.-led coalition targeting the militants in Syria and Iraq.

 

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Islamic State suspect, Saudi soldier killed in shoot-out in desert north| Reuters

Sat Sep 26, 2015 10:03am EDT

One Saudi soldier and one suspected Islamic State militant were killed in a gun battle in northern Saudi Arabia between security forces and two brothers wanted in connection with several attacks last week, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.

Islamic State has called on supporters to carry out attacks in Saudi Arabia and string of deadly attacks by its followers has fueled concerns about a growing threat of militancy in the world's top oil exporter.

The two brothers were suspects in shootings that killed two civilians outside a police station and a soldier in separate incidents on Thursday. They were also wanted for allegedly killing their cousin, a member of the Saudi security forces.

Abdul Aziz al-Anzi, 18, was killed, while his brother Saad, 21, was wounded and captured in the shoot-out in the northern desert province of Ha'il, the Interior Ministry said.

In the worst attacks by the group in the kingdom to date, two suicide bombers killed 25 people at Shi'ite Muslim mosques in the east of the country in May.

Saudi authorities say they are cracking down on the militants and announced in July that it had detained 431 people suspected of belonging to the organization.

(Reporting By Noah Browning and Omar Fahmy; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)

 

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May Allah protect and bless brave Saudi Soldiers.

 

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Saudi general dies of wounds in Yemen conflict| Reuters

Sun Sep 27, 2015 5:56am EDT
Related: World, United Nations, Yemen
Saudi general dies of wounds in Yemen conflict
DUBAI

A Saudi brigadier general has died in hospital of wounds incurred on the border with Yemen, the armed forces said.

Ibrahim Omar Ibrahim Hamzi, deputy commander of the 8th brigade in Saudi Arabia's southern Jizan province, was injured "defending the nation and its citizens," the statement said, without providing any details.

His death follows the killing of two border officers along the frontier on Saturday, as clashes with Iran-allied Houthis in Yemen escalated.

An Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia has been pounding the Houthis from the air for six months, trying to eject the group from the capital Sanaa and restore President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi to power.

About 100 Saudi military personnel, including another general, have been killed along the border with Yemen since the Saudi-led campaign began in March, according to a Reuters count.

More than 4,500 Yemeni have also died since March, according to U.N. figures.

Coalition air strikes pounded suspected Houthi targets in the capital around 25 times, residents said, and hit several other central provinces.

Gulf troops and allied Yemeni tribesmen continued heavy ground battles with the militiamen and their allies in Yemen's army in the desert province of Marib 120 km (75 miles) east of Sanaa on Sunday.

The two sides exchanged artillery fire in a coalition push for the strategic foothills leading to Sanaa on Saturday, backed by Arab air strikes.

At least 20 bodies from both sides were seen on the battlefield, a local official told Reuters.

Hadi had arrived in the southern port city of Aden, a week after the government's formal return to Yemeni soil from Saudi Arabia.

But he left the country again on Sunday, local officials said, en route to the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York. It remains unclear whether he will return again to Yemen or go back to Saudi Arabia.

(Reporting by Noah Browning, Mohammed Ghobari and Mohammed Mukhashaf; Editing by Sami Aboudi and William Hardy)

 

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May Allah protect and bless brave Saudi Soldiers.

But what about the Islamic State soldiers you love too?