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Operation 'Decisive Storm' | Saudi lead coalition operations in Yemen - Updates & Discussions.

I'll post it as soon as I find it. I honestly forgot where I read it.

Don't try, you won't find anything. The war in Yemen is much harder to follow than those in Syria and Iraq because of media blackout by Houthis and allies. Some pro-Houthi accounts do have some updates, but many of them are false. On Saudi side, I barely believe one word of the coalition.
 
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April 04, 2015

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Operation 'Al Maliki': UAE fighter jets strike Houthi targets in Yemen
'Al Maliki' in memory of first Saudi soldier killed in operation 'Decisive Storm'

UAE fighter jets launched successful airstrikes against a number of Houthi-controlled targets in Yemen.

The airstrike, dubbed the ‘Al Maliki’ operation in memory of Sulieman bin Ali Al Harazi Al Maliki, the first Saudi soldier killed in the Operation ‘Decisive Storm’ as part of Saudi-led Arab coalition of ten nations to reinstate legitimacy in Yemen.

The Saudi Border Guard soldier became the first martyr of Operation Decisive Storm when he was killed in a firefight with Houthi infiltrators on the Saudi-Yemen border early on Thursday morning.

The UAE fighter jets struck a surface-to-air missile (SAM) base and a radar site in Marib and returned safely.

Commander of the UAE squadron said the Maliki airstrike was in tribute of the Saudi martyr and it underscored ''our standing with our brothers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's armed forces and air forces and the leadership, government and people of the KSA under the leadership of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia.''

He added that the operation also underlined the UAE's active engagement in the international coalition against the Houthi rebels and militias.

He extended deepest condolences to the government and people of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and to the family of the martyr, saying that he was an example of honourable men who sacrificed their lives in defence of their homeland with high loyalty and dedication.

He was doing his patriotic duty. He expressed the pride of UAE force in the KSA to follow orders from the UAE leadership and answer the call of duty in standing with the KSA.

Operation 'Al Maliki': UAE fighter jets strike Houthi targets in Yemen - Emirates 24|7


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Two more Saudi soldiers from the border guards martyred


التاريخ:: 04 أبريل 2015

الداخلية السعودية تعلن استشهاد جنديين من حرس الحدود

أعلنت وزارة الداخلية السعودية استشهاد جنديين من حرس الحدود أثناء أدائهما لمهامها في نقطة أمن بمنطقة عسير في تبادل لإطلاق نار من منطقة جبلية مواجهة داخل الحدود اليمنية.

ونقلت وكالة الأنباء السعودية " واس " عن المتحدث الأمني لوزارة الداخلية السعودية قوله إن رجال حرس الحدود تعرضوا أثناء أدائهم لمهامهم في نقطة أمن رقابة الحلق الحدودية المتقدمة بمركز الحصن بمنطقة عسير لإطلاق نار كثيف من منطقة جبلية مواجهة داخل الحدود اليمنية مما اقتضى الرد على مصدر النيران بالمثل والسيطرة على الموقف بمساندة من القوات البرية، لافتاً إلى أنه نتج عن تبادل إطلاق النار استشهاد اثنين من رجال حرس الحدود.

الداخلية السعودية تعلن استشهاد جنديين من حرس الحدود - الإمارات اليوم



@Imran Khan is that you? :D
 
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Last Updated: Saturday, April 4, 2015 - 21:14
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New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Saturday that due to heavy shelling in Aden, an Indian warship which was sent to evacuate the stranded Indians in Yemen, is unable to enter the port and is evacuating them from outside the harbour.

Swaraj took to microblogging website Twitter to provide this information. “There is heavy shelling in Aden.The ship is anchored 5/6 KM off the coast. Indian nationals are being taken by boat to board the ship there,” she tweeted.

Meanwhile, the Indian Navy confirmed that the guided missile destroyer INS Mumbai, one of the Indian Navy’s most powerful warships, was unable to enter the Aden port.

“Officials had hired a dozen smaller vessels, each capable of carrying 30 to 35 people, to ferry the Indians to the destroyer,” the Navy officials said.

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Hats off for Indian Navy and Indian Air Force.
 
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Yemen air strike kills family of nine: residents| Reuters

(Reuters) - An air strike on a village near the Yemeni capital Sanaa killed a family of nine, residents said on Saturday, in what appeared to be a hit by the Saudi-led military campaign against Houthi militia.

Five other people were wounded and some citizens remained under the rubble, state news agency Saba said.

The operation by Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Muslim states is aimed at stopping the Iranian-allied Houthis and former president Ali Abdullah Saleh winning control of Yemen, and at reinstating Saudi-backed President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

Residents near Okash village, which is near an air force camp on Jebel al-Nabi Shouieb mountain, said the air strike was on Friday night and killed nine people.

Saba said the family consisted of two men, a woman and six children. It posted a picture on its website showing three children lying next to each other with pieces of papers with the date April 3, 2015 written on them. Reuters could not immediately verify the authenticity of photo.

The United Nations Security Council will meet on Saturday after Russia called for a meeting to discuss a proposal for a humanitarian pause in the air strikes on the country.

Yemen President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi fled Aden last week in the face of the Houthi offensive, which has continued to advance despite nine days of air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition aimed at driving back the Houthis and restoring Hadi's authority.

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Red Cross says urgent Yemen aid shipments still blocked| Reuters


(Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross said on Saturday three shipments of aid and medical staff it is trying to send to Yemen were still blocked, despite appeals to the Saudi-led military coalition which controls Yemeni air space and ports.

The ICRC is seeking security guarantees for two planes to Sanaa, one with medical supplies for up to 1,000 wounded people and a second with 30 tonnes of medical and water sanitation supplies, as well as a boat to take a surgical team to Aden.

The aid organisation on Tuesday accused the Saudi-led coalition, which is waging a 10-day-old campaign of air strikes on Houthi fighters in Yemen, of preventing aid deliveries.

"Our supplies are still blocked," spokeswoman Sitara Jabeen said. "The situation is getting worse, every passing hour people are dying in Yemen and we need to bring this in urgently".

She was speaking ahead of a United Nations Security Council meeting called by Russia to discuss a humanitarian pause in the air strikes.

U.N. relief coordinator Valerie Amos said on Thursday 519 people have been killed in the fighting in the past two weeks and nearly 1,700 wounded, without specifying whether those figures included combatants.

The conflict is also taking its toll by cutting off vital services. Residents of central Aden, the southern city where Houthi fighters and their allies have been battling forces loyal to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, said on Saturday some areas had been without water or electricity for two days.

"How can we work? This is unacceptable. How long can people live without water or electricity?" said Mohammad Fara'a, a resident of Aden's central Crater district, which was briefly captured on Thursday by Houthi forces.

Another Crater resident, Hassan Abdallah, said people were resorting to a long-disused well at one of the city's mosques to get water. In the adjacent Mualla neighbourhood, Abdu Hassan said his family was using up the last water in their tank.

"When that runs out, God knows what we will do," he said.

Uncollected rubbish was also gathering in the street, a potential health threat in the absence of running water.

Another emergency medical aid group, Medecins Sans Frontieres, has also said that airport closures and naval restrictions in Yemen have prevented it from sending in medical teams and supplies.
 
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Yemen Crisis Map
(2nd April)
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Click or open in new tab to see the full version.

Red - Yemeni Loyalists
Green - Houthis
Black - Al Qaeeda
 
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April 4, 2015

Two more Saudi soldiers killed on border with Yemen
They were subject to heavy fire from a mountainous region inside the Yemeni border

Two more Saudi soldiers have been killed on the border with Yemen, the interior ministry said on Friday.
“Two soldiers from the border guards were martyred during an exchange of fire at a border point in Asir region” in Saudi Arabia’s southwest, said the ministry’s spokesman cited by the official Saudi Press Agency.

“They were subject to heavy fire from a mountainous region inside the Yemeni border, which made it necessary to respond in the same manner. The situation was controlled with support from the ground forces,” the spokesman said.

The deaths come a day after the ministry announced the first Saudi casualty — a soldier shot from the Yemenis side of the border in the same area — since a coalition led by Riyadh launched air strikes against Al Houthi rebels in Yemen on March 26.

Saudi Arabia has 150,000 troops and 100 warplanes assigned to the Yemen operation, according to a Saudi adviser, but says it has no plan for now to send ground forces into the neighbouring country.

Two more Saudi soldiers killed on border with Yemen |GulfNews.com
 
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This is just the second week. Sending air-drops and cosmetic air-strikes isn't going to work forever not matter how hard Hadi urges people to fight for Aden from the comfort of Riyadh. The coalition don't have any clear goals it seems other than beating houthis and allies into submission
But it can still stop them from open movements, mechanized attacks, using artillery support, maintain supply lines and above all maintaining organized and well functioning command and control. The doctrine of control of the skies is crucial in modern warfare.
 
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A Houthi fighter mans a weapon on a patrol truck as he guards the site of a demonstration against Saudi-led coalition airstrikes, in Sana'a on April 3, 2015.
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U.N. relief coordinator Valerie Amos said on Thursday that 519 people have been killed in the fighting in the past two weeks and nearly 1,700 wounded, without specifying whether those figures included combatants.

A jet takes off to participate in the Saudi-led air strikes on Yemen, at an airbase in an undisclosed location in Saudi Arabia on April 2.
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It's only obvious that being open targets from the skies, the best defense is to hide among civilian populace and thus undermining the air attacks. Hauties have been reported placing their anti air assets in highly populated areas of San'aa. Human shields have their own benefits.

Blind support is what you are doing. Do you have anything to back that up? Otherwise, your allegation is not worth a damn.
 
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4-Apr-2015

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Saudi special forces snipers run before taking a position during "anti-terrorist" exercises on March 18, 2015

Saudi special forces 'involved in Yemen ops'

Saudi Arabian special forces are involved in the military operation against Shiite Huthi rebels in neighbouring Yemen, a Saudi adviser said Saturday.

A Saudi-led coalition began air strikes on March 26 against the Iran-backed rebels, but says it has no plans for now to deploy ground forces.

However, Saudi army and naval special forces have carried out specific operations, said the adviser, without revealing if they had actually set foot on the ground.

Army special forces supplied weapons and communications equipment to militia loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi in the main southern city of Aden, the adviser told AFP.

Naval special forces provided "coordination and guidance" to enable the loyalist fighters to launch a counter-attack on the rebels.

Special forces "will continue their engagements" with the fighters loyal to Hadi, who has sought refuge in Saudi Arabia, said the adviser, who did not want to be identified.

He said army and navy special forces were also involved in operations against Huthi units that "invaded" Myun Island in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, through which much of the world's maritime trade passes.

On Friday, the coalition announced that air strikes had destroyed "military equipment and missiles" on the island, which could have posed a threat to shipping.

"Special forces have isolated the island as the operation continues to destroy all remnants of Huthi presence" which was supported by "foreign military" technicians, the Saudi adviser said.

Iran has dismissed as "utter lies" claims that it supplied weapons to Yemen, but a Western diplomat told AFP "there have been a lot of shipments".

Shiite Iran, which backs the Huthis, has accused Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia of sowing instability in the region.

The kingdom's ambassador to the United States, Adel al-Jubeir, had on Thursday hinted at a special forces role, saying that "we don't have troops, formal Saudi troops in Aden".

The issue of ground troops is "on the table but the decisions will be made depending on the circumstances and the need", he was quoted as saying by the Saudi-US Relations Information Service.

Saudi special forces 'involved in Yemen ops' - Yahoo News
 
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Blind support is what you are doing. Do you have anything to back that up? Otherwise, your allegation is not worth a damn.
Remember Desert Storm,Afghanistan,Iraqi freedom,Serbian Campaign?
 
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But it can still stop them from open movements, mechanized attacks, using artillery support, maintain supply lines and above all maintaining organized and well functioning command and control. The doctrine of control of the skies is crucial in modern warfare.
We're talking about the Houthis here (a guerrilla organization), not some organized army.

Bombing a insurgent organization doesn't achieve much if you aren't going to follow up with a ground invasion. Case in point ISIS.
 
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We're talking about the Houthis here (a guerrilla organization), not some organized army.

Bombing a insurgent organization doesn't achieve much if you aren't going to follow up with a ground invasion. Case in point ISIS.
Well Hauti militia is different, they have tanks and mechanized units and a whole artillery brigade. Well I haven't seen a militia enjoying these perks.
With second part, I agree that air attacks can be a critical advantage but boots on the ground are necessary to cement the gains.
 
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