Saudi, UAE forces deployed to Yemen

[Zarvan]

Like the member of the RSLF Paratroopers and Special Forces seen here during Exercise 'Red Alligator 4' in November 2014, the foreign soldiers spotted in Aden carried AK-103 rifles. Source: Saudi Press Agency
Saudi Arabia's Al-Watan newspaper cited unidentified sources on 17 July as saying that Saudi special forces soldiers had arrived in Aden to guard officials from Yemen's internationally recognised government who had arrived in the city after a series of victories by pro-government forces.

It said the unit consisted of 50 men, including officers, and had accompanied Yemeni officials who returned to their country from exile in Riyadh.

The report was corroborated by photographs that emerged on social media showing well-equipped foreign soldiers escorting Yemeni dignitaries around Aden. The soldiers carried AK-103 assault rifles, a Kalashnikov type used by the Royal Saudi Land Forces (RSLF) Paratroopers and Special Forces.

A Saudi source told IHS Jane's that the soldiers are from the RSLF's 64th Airborne Brigade.

The presence of United Arab Emirates (UAE) soldiers inside Yemen seems also to have been confirmed. According to the official news agency, WAM, the country's General Command of the Armed Forces announced on 16 July that Lieutenant Abdulaziz Sarhan Saleh al-Kaabi had been killed while participating in Operation 'Restoring Hope', the name for the Saudi-led military intervention against Yemen's Ansar Allah group.

The death of a second soldier participating in 'Restoring Hope', Saif Yusuf Ahmed al-Falasi, an NCO of unspecified rank, was announced on 21 July.

While no further details on either fatality were provided, WAM also reported the minister of transport in Yemen's exiled government as saying that the UAE had deployed a specialist team to Aden to re-open the port city's airport.

Aden International Airport was captured by forces fighting against Ansar Allah on behalf of the internationally recognised government on 14 July in an operation that involved newly arrived Oshkosh M-ATVs, a type of armoured vehicle that is used by both Emirati and Saudi special forces and has not previously been seen in Yemen.

While these vehicles are in service with both RSLF and UAE special forces, the ones seen in Yemen were operated by men in civilian clothes.

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Saudi, UAE forces deployed to Yemen - IHS Jane's 360

 

[airmarshal]

Good going. Keep fighting a war with no end in sight.

 

[haviZsultan]

Good going. Keep fighting a war with no end in sight.

Surely Zarvan is the only one celebrating this?

 

[Moon]

Why there is no end in sight

Arab-Persian wars or Sunni-Shia conflicts have been going around for a millennia, do you think this war will put an end to it?. It's a never ending circle which has devastated the ME.

 

[RoadRunner401]

Surely Zarvan is the only one celebrating this?

Is this zarvan guy, Pakistani or Saudi ?

 

[ArsalanKhan21]

Arabia is original homeland of the Arabs and birthplace of Islam but the current Saudi regime wants perpetual wars in the Arab states and civil war among Sunnis and Shias within Islam.

 

[RoadRunner401]

Mr zarvan it's very easy to get in wars, almost impossible to get out. What exactly are you celebrating ? few soldiers guarding Saudi puppets can't be considered deployment. This is a civil war and will not end well for outsiders.

 

[SALMAN F]

Like the member of the RSLF Paratroopers and Special Forces seen here during Exercise 'Red Alligator 4' in November 2014, the foreign soldiers spotted in Aden carried AK-103 rifles. Source: Saudi Press Agency
Saudi Arabia's Al-Watan newspaper cited unidentified sources on 17 July as saying that Saudi special forces soldiers had arrived in Aden to guard officials from Yemen's internationally recognised government who had arrived in the city after a series of victories by pro-government forces.

It said the unit consisted of 50 men, including officers, and had accompanied Yemeni officials who returned to their country from exile in Riyadh.

The report was corroborated by photographs that emerged on social media showing well-equipped foreign soldiers escorting Yemeni dignitaries around Aden. The soldiers carried AK-103 assault rifles, a Kalashnikov type used by the Royal Saudi Land Forces (RSLF) Paratroopers and Special Forces.

A Saudi source told IHS Jane's that the soldiers are from the RSLF's 64th Airborne Brigade.

The presence of United Arab Emirates (UAE) soldiers inside Yemen seems also to have been confirmed. According to the official news agency, WAM, the country's General Command of the Armed Forces announced on 16 July that Lieutenant Abdulaziz Sarhan Saleh al-Kaabi had been killed while participating in Operation 'Restoring Hope', the name for the Saudi-led military intervention against Yemen's Ansar Allah group.

The death of a second soldier participating in 'Restoring Hope', Saif Yusuf Ahmed al-Falasi, an NCO of unspecified rank, was announced on 21 July.

While no further details on either fatality were provided, WAM also reported the minister of transport in Yemen's exiled government as saying that the UAE had deployed a specialist team to Aden to re-open the port city's airport.

Aden International Airport was captured by forces fighting against Ansar Allah on behalf of the internationally recognised government on 14 July in an operation that involved newly arrived Oshkosh M-ATVs, a type of armoured vehicle that is used by both Emirati and Saudi special forces and has not previously been seen in Yemen.

While these vehicles are in service with both RSLF and UAE special forces, the ones seen in Yemen were operated by men in civilian clothes.

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Saudi, UAE forces deployed to Yemen - IHS Jane's 360

Yemen is the grave yard of the invaders

 

[Aramagedon]

I don't know why some of the Pakistanis think today's Arabs have any connection with prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and the 1400 years ago!
Wake up! 2 million Muslims have get killed in ME due to wahhabism everyday Muslims are getting killed in Pakistan and Afghanistan and u still follow Saudia which has nothing to do Islam! They are slaves of Zionists. They don't care about anything except their princes enjoyment.

Today's tensions aren't Shia Sunni war but they are wahhabi bestiality.

 

[airmarshal]

I don't know why some of the Pakistanis think today's Arabs have any connection with prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and the 1400 years ago!
Wake up! 2 million Muslims have get killed in ME due to wahhabism everyday Muslims are getting killed in Pakistan and Afghanistan and u still follow Saudia which has nothing to do Islam! They are slaves of Zionists. They don't care about anything except their princes enjoyment.

Today's tensions aren't Shia Sunni war but they are wahhabi bestiality.

Its a shia sunni war and both Iran and Middle Eastern countries are responsible for it.

Both use Islam to further their geopolitical interests.

 

[Amun]

Its a shia sunni war and both Iran and Middle Eastern countries are responsible for it.

Both use Islam to further their geopolitical interests.

You cannot say Iran and ME countries you have to be specific.

 

[mkg00179504]

Is this zarvan guy, Pakistani or Saudi ?

He is more Saudi than the saudis themselves.

 

[Zarvan]

Is this zarvan guy, Pakistani or Saudi ?

Proud Pakistani and I give a dam to some liberals.......................... here

 

[airmarshal]

You cannot say Iran and ME countries you have to be specific.

Iran and Saudi Arabia. Happy?

 

[Superboy]

If they try to take Taiz which is a former capital of North Yemen they'll be in trouble. Taiz is no Aden. The only ones in Taiz are Shias. There are no Sunnis in Taiz. It's a long way from Aden to Taiz. They be easily ambushed.

Shias is 55% of Yemen's population, 40% Zaidi, 15% other Shia, however the distribution is not uniform. Shias are all in North Yemen. Sunnis are all in South Yemen.