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  • #76
    Shia sources are claiming that 11 American-made Hummer vehicles belonging to the UAE forces who have gone in to Yemen have been captured.

    http://www.shiitenews.org/index.php/saudi-arab/item/17717-ansarullah-foils-saudi-plot-to-capture-sana-a




    Picture of an alleged UAE military vehicle destroyed by Houthi forces in Yemen.


    However overall the GCC backed anti-Houthi forces in Yemen seem to be turning back the Houthi tide with the capture of Aden, and now other towns.




    Lots of graphic images of dead Yemenis on social media, but I have chosen not to post them.

    Arabs killing Arabs.

    Hopefully this war will come to an end soon.

    The Algerian approach is the way forward.

    We Bangladeshis support our historical Algerian ally in calling for an Arab solution to the Yemen crisis, an immediate ceasefire and a dialogue for a government of national unity in Yemen consisting of both Hadi and Saleh.

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      - The Saudis should have listened to Algeria.

      Algeria has been proven correct.

      British foreign minister: Saudi operations in Yemen coming to an end.

      Yahoo news

      US asks Saudi to stop Yemen operation


      Al-Manar


      - The Saudi operation in Yemen:

      - Showed the Saudi military as weak, poorly trained, inefficient and not able to capture the poorest country in the Arab world.


      - Led to the death of the crown prince of Dubai.


      - The Saudis were never able to establish full control of Aden, let alone Sana'a.


      - The Saudis were not able to establish a proper regional government led by their surrogate Hadi, let alone a national government.


      - Despite the Pakistanis not supporting them, the Saudis will keep on with their traditional policy of fellating the Pakistanis.




      Saudi military officer beaten by Pakistanis in a Pakistani airport a few years ago. Saudis are infatuated by Pakistan and are in awe of them (on a state to state level, not the average Pakistani labourers in Saudi whom they abuse and torture)



      Saudi officer beaten by Pakistanis, Saudi enforces state harassment and assault of Bangladeshi workers on behalf of Pakistan and the pro-Iranian Jamaat e Islami terrorist organization in Bangladesh, despite Bangladesh always seeking to be respectful to the Saudi regime.


      - Led to a major loss of money and a drain on Saudi's financial resources.

      - Led to dissension within the royal family and calls for Salman to be removed as "King" (head of Saud tribe)


      - Thousands of Yemeni civilians have been killed by the Saudis.


      Constant Saudi bombing of Yemeni skies.


      Algeria has been vindicated once again.

      Algeria was right.

      The Algerian option of peaceful negotiations was always the correct one.

      Bravo Algeria!

      Bravo Algeria for telling the Saudis to stop bombing Muslims from the very beginning.



      VIVE L'ALGERIE!



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          Exclusive - U.S. withdraws staff from Saudi Arabia dedicated to Yemen planning



          Smoke rises from a snack food factory after a Saudi-led air strike hit it in Sanaa, Yemen, August 9, 2016. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

          By Phil Stewart | WASHINGTON

          The U.S. military has withdrawn from Saudi Arabia its personnel who were coordinating with the Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen, and sharply reduced the number of staff elsewhere who were assisting in that planning, U.S. officials told Reuters.

          Fewer than five U.S. service people are now assigned full-time to the "Joint Combined Planning Cell," which was established last year to coordinate U.S. support, including air-to-air refuelling of coalition jets and limited intelligence-sharing, Lieutenant Ian McConnaughey, a U.S. Navy spokesman in Bahrain, told Reuters.

          That is down from a peak of about 45 staff members who were dedicated to the effort full-time in Riyadh and elsewhere, he said.

          The June staff withdrawal, which U.S. officials say followed a lull in air strikes in Yemen earlier this year, reduces Washington's day-to-day involvement in advising a campaign that has come under increasing scrutiny for causing civilian casualties. A Pentagon statement issued after Reuters disclosed the withdrawal acknowledged that the JCPC, as originally conceived, had been "largely shelved" and that ongoing support was limited, despite renewed fighting this summer.

          "The cooperation that we've extended to Saudi Arabia since the conflict escalated again is modest and it is not a blank check," Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump said in a statement.

          U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the reduced staffing was not due to the growing international outcry over civilian casualties in the 16-month civil war that has killed more than 6,500 people in Yemen, about half of them civilians.

          But the Pentagon, in some of its strongest language yet, also acknowledged concerns about the conflict, which has brought Yemen close to famine and cost more than $14 billion in damage to infrastructure and economic losses.

          "Even as we assist the Saudis regarding their territorial integrity, it does not mean that we will refrain from expressing our concern about the war in Yemen and how it has been waged," Stump said.

          "In our discussions with the Saudi-led coalition, we have pressed the need to minimize civilian casualties."

          A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, Brigadier General Ahmed al-Asseri, declined to confirm details about the positioning of U.S. military personnel, but played down such moves.

          "The relationship between the kingdom and the U.S. is a strategic one. If true, this move reflects something at a tactical level," Asseri told Reuters. "The U.S. may move its assets, but that doesn't have any impact on the bilateral relationship between the countries."

          HOSPITAL STRIKE

          Since the campaign began, the U.S. military has conducted an average of two refuelling sorties every day and provided limited intelligence support to the coalition. That assistance continues, officials said.

          Still, the Pentagon has long distanced itself from the Saudi-led coalition's decisions on targeting.

          "At no point did U.S. military personnel provide direct or implicit approval of target selection or prosecution," Stump said.

          The JCPC had also largely wrapped up an earlier effort to advise the Saudi-led coalition on steps to prevent civilian casualties, the Pentagon said.

          An annual U.N. report on children and armed conflict said the Saudi-led coalition was responsible for 60 percent of child deaths and injuries in Yemen last year. Saudi Arabia has said the report is based on inaccurate information.

          On Tuesday, a coalition air strike hit a hospital operated by medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres in Yemen, killing 19 people and prompting the group to evacuate staff from six hospitals. MSF cited a "loss of confidence in the Saudi-led coalition to prevent fatal attacks."

          U.S. Representative Ted Lieu, a Democrat from California and a colonel in the Air Force Reserve, said he believed such strikes could help galvanize votes for limiting arms transfers to Saudi Arabia.

          "When its repeated air strikes that have now killed children, doctors, newlyweds, patients, at some point you just have to say: Either Saudi Arabia is not listening to the United States or they just don't care," Lieu said.

          (Additional reporting by Yara Bayoumy in Washington, Katie Paul in Riyadh and Michelle Nichols in New York; Editing by John Walcott, Alistair Bell and Bernard Orr)

          Exclusive - U.S. withdraws staff from Saudi Arabia dedicated to Yemen planning
          | Reuters




          1. The Saudis have failed to take Sana'a, the capital.

          2. There are reports of Yemeni capture of Saudi territory including in the Saudi province of Jizan, with Yemeni forces.

          3. Despite the supposed Saudi blockade of Yemen, Russia is able to send supplies through air and sea sometimes purporting to be "humanitarian supplies".

          The Yemeni army/Houthi alliance are well equipped including with rockets and missiles.

          Putin has increased the supply of arms to the Yemenis as revenge for the shooting down of a Russian helicopter in Syria by Saudi-backed militants.



          A female Russian national who died in the shooting down of a Russian helicopter by anti-government rebels backed by Saudi Arabia.


          Here is one report from Twitter:

          Alcuin Bramerton ‏@AlcuinBramerton Aug 18

          #Yemen forces destroy 20+ #SaudiArabia military tanks in #Qamar & #Khal (#Jizan province). Farsnews #1ab #Riyadh #Jeddah #GCC


          Tony Toh ‏@tonytohcy Aug 11
          Daghmal Tower in #Najran city, a landmark which is overlooked by Yemeni fighters confirming their presence in KSA
          Putin has humiliated Erdogan and the Turks and ultimately it may be him or the Iranians or the Saleh/Houthi alliance or a collective decision whether to take Saudi cities such as Najran.

          I actually doubt the Russians/Iranians will allow the Houthis to take such cities but if Saudi Arabia keeps on provoking Russia, anything could happen.



          Putin with former president and army chief of Yemen, Abdullah Ali Saleh, whose forces are now occupying parts of southern Saudi Arabia. Picture from the past.




          Bangladeshi perspective: As an individual Bangladeshi I would not wish to see Saudi Arabia collapse or its borders changed. This is a major national security issue for us i.e. the territorial integrity of the Saudi state.

          However Saudi Arabia must end the war in Yemen and look for a political solution and stop provoking Russia.


          Eyes will be on Algeria to see what role it can play on pressurizing Saudi Arabia to stop its failed and costly war against Yemen.



          Algerian officials with Yemenis.

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          • #80
            Yemen Offers Use Of Ports, Airbases To Russian Military

            The offer takes place 48 hours after the U.S. officials announced the Pentagon has withdrawn from Saudi Arabia its personnel who were coordinating with the Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen
            By ZeroHedge.com | August 22, 2016



            Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, left, and Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh watch a military show as they attend the international forum "Technologies in machine building 2010" in Zhukovsky outside Moscow, Wednesday, June 30, 2010.



            While Obama was golfing in the midst of another Louisiana natural disaster, and is set to end his vacation so he can do what is truly important, support Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, Putin has been busy making new friends: first he did the seemingly impossible, having rekindled relations with Turkey to the point where Ankara itself is warning it may quit NATO to seek “military cooperation” with Russia, followed quickly by strengthening relations with Iran so that Moscow can now use an Iranian airbase to strike ISIS, much to the angry dismay of the US and the United Nations, the latest stunning pivot toward Russia comes from yet another civil war-torn nation, Yemen, whose former president, Abdullah Saleh, said its newly-formed governing council could work with Russia to “fight terrorism” by allowing Moscow use of the war-torn country’s military bases.

            What makes the announcement even more striking is that Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen’s ex-president who was toppled by mass protests in 2011 as part of the Arab Spring launched by none other than the US when it “intervened” in Libya and Egypt, was a former staunch counter-terrorism ally of the US; it is this former US ally who told state-owned channel Russia 24 that Yemen was ready to grant Moscow access to air and naval bases.

            “In the fight against terrorism we reach out and offer all facilities. Our airports, our ports… We are ready to provide this to the Russian Federation,” Saleh said in an interview in Sanaa.


            While the ex-strongman may lack the clout to implement such an offer, Reuters admits that officials from the party he heads now run a political council that controls much of the country along with the Houthi movement allied to Iran.

            The offer takes place 48 hours after the U.S. officials told Reuters the Pentagon has withdrawn from Saudi Arabia its personnel who were coordinating with the Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen, and sharply reduced the number of staff elsewhere who were assisting in that planning. Fewer than five U.S. service people are now assigned full-time to the “Joint Combined Planning Cell,” which was established last year to coordinate U.S. support, including air-to-air refueling of coalition jets and limited intelligence-sharing, Lieutenant Ian McConnaughey, a U.S. Navy spokesman in Bahrain, told Reuters.

            Incidentally, while U.S. officials said the reduced staffing was not due to the growing international outcry over civilian casualties in the 16-month civil war that has killed more than 6,500 people in Yemen, the Pentagon, in some of its strongest language yet, also acknowledged concerns about the conflict, which has brought Yemen close to famine and cost more than $14 billion in damage to infrastructure and economic losses.

            Meanwhile, Russia remains the only major country that maintains a diplomatic presence in Yemen where a 16-month war between a Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi rebels has killed over 6,500 people and raised the prospect of famine in the Arab World’s poorest country. Russia abstained from a United Nations Security Council resolution in 2015 that imposed an arms embargo on the Houthi rebels.

            Many have condemned ongoing Saudi airstrikes which have led to thousands of civilian casualties, culminating last week with the death of over a dozen hospital workers killed in a Saudi bombing raid at a Doctors without Borders facility. Ironically, just two months ago, the Saudis had threatened to leave the UN over human rights criticism in Yemen.

            The Yemen civil war, stoked by the Saudi airstrikes, has allowed Islamist militants including al Qaeda and the Islamic State to flourish, even though the United States has for years launched drone strikes against groups in Yemen.

            Moscow’s relations with Yemen date back decades and until the break-up of the USSR, Reuters recalls: thousands of Soviet military advisers and trainers worked in the formerly-independent south.

            On Saturday tens of thousands of Yemenis rallied in the capital to show support for the Houthi-led bloc as the head of the group’s new governing council vowed to form a full government in the coming days.

            In an apparent response to the Houthi show of force, ambassadors from the G18 group of nations, including Russia, that has backed U.N. peace talks to end Yemen’s civil war issued a statement condemning “unconstitutional and unilateral actions in Sanaa.”

            As for the latest Yemeni pivot, it confirms that far from content with its recent diplomatic success in Turkey and Iran, Putin continues to expand his middle-east axis, in the process sending Saudi Arabia a message that going forward any Saudi attacks against Yemen may be frowned upon by the Kremlin, which is additionally becoming an increasingly dominant military force in the region, with military presence in Syria and Iran, and – perhaps soon – in Turkey and Yemen as well.

            Finally, the Yemen pivot takes place just 5 days after China appears to have finally joined the Syria proxy war, announcing it would provide “aid and military training” to the Assad government, in effect siding with Russia’s “vision” on the future of Syria, and perhaps the entire region.

            Yemen Offers Use Of Ports, Airbases To Russian Military


            Reuters also has an article reporting the same:

            Yemen's ex-president says could work with Russia to 'fight terrorism'
            | Reuters



            Comment:

            1. The western media which dominates global perception towards current affairs and reality calls the 2-3 rival governments in Libya, "governments" however in Yemen it only calls the pro-Saudi forces led by deposed president Hadi as the "Yemeni government".

            2. However the Saleh-Houthi coalition control most of the country and may (may not) have the support of the majority of Yemenis and they control the capital. They view themselves as the official government of Yemen.

            If the Sana'a government do invite the Russians in to Yemen, the Russians will say they have been "invited by the Yemeni government".


            3. Yemeni forces have already captured large parts of southern Saudi Arabia which were historically Yemeni and are close to provincial capitals.

            a - If the Yemenis take these provincial capitals e.g. Najran, Jizan etc, there might be an internal Saudi palace coup with the removal of Ibn Salman and maybe even Salman himself. Nayef might be made official king and there might be a complete abandonment of the Saudi war on Yemen.

            b - Putin might do a "Donbass" or "Abkhazia" on southern Saudi Arabia, get his Yemeni allies to take regions of southern Saudi Arabia and make it a "frozen conflict" with self-declared independent republics.

            [IMG]https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1200/1*r5CyBNNy79BGEh2MekbsXA.jpeg[/IMG]


            TRANSLATION: PUTIN HAS THE SAUDIS BY THE BALLS.





            Putin is allies with the largest state in the Arab world with its most powerful military convenient in case the security situation in Saudi should deteriorate as Egypt is right next door.



            Putin.....checkmates once again.


            [MENTION=19592]Habshi[/MENTION]
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            • #81
              Saudi Army in serious trouble after Houthi forces advance to Najran Dam

              By Leith Fadel - 23/08/201620



              Sanaa, Yemen (6:00 P.M.) – The Houthi forces are now at the doorsteps of the strategic Najran Dam after capturing several sites from the exhausted Saudi Royal Army in the Najran Valley of Saudi Arabia.

              With the Houthi forces on the brink of seizing the Najran Dam, the Saudi Army finds itself in serious trouble inside their own country, as the anti-government units continue the onslaught that allowed them to seize much of the Saudi-Yemeni border.

              Making matters worse for the KSA’s armed forces, the Saudi-whistleblower on Twitter “Mujtahidd” announced on Tuesday that an apache helicopter crashed while attacking the Houthi forces.


              The Saudi Ministry of Defense has not commented on this rumor; however, they have rarely discussed the ongoing military operations in Najran with the public.

              Saudi Army in serious trouble after Houthi forces advance to Najran Dam


              1. I don't know how true this is but if the Saudis lose Najran, the Yemenis (Houthi + Saleh) will have clear proof via social media that they have captured the capital of a province, thus one whole entire Saudi province from an army that spends $80 billion on arms.

              2. There may be an internal Saudi palace coup, discreet and dignified but a change of power nevertheless and:

              - the removal of Ibn Salman, the architect of the failed and catastrophic Yemen war.

              - An end to the Yemen war and in return for Najran giving Ali Abdullah Saleh and the Houthis what they want.

              - An end to Saudi backing for rebels in Syria and giving in to some Russian demands too.

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              • #82
                Originally posted by Bengal_Tiger View Post
                Saudi Army in serious trouble after Houthi forces advance to Najran Dam

                By Leith Fadel - 23/08/201620



                Sanaa, Yemen (6:00 P.M.) – The Houthi forces are now at the doorsteps of the strategic Najran Dam after capturing several sites from the exhausted Saudi Royal Army in the Najran Valley of Saudi Arabia.

                With the Houthi forces on the brink of seizing the Najran Dam, the Saudi Army finds itself in serious trouble inside their own country, as the anti-government units continue the onslaught that allowed them to seize much of the Saudi-Yemeni border.

                Making matters worse for the KSA’s armed forces, the Saudi-whistleblower on Twitter “Mujtahidd” announced on Tuesday that an apache helicopter crashed while attacking the Houthi forces.


                The Saudi Ministry of Defense has not commented on this rumor; however, they have rarely discussed the ongoing military operations in Najran with the public.

                Saudi Army in serious trouble after Houthi forces advance to Najran Dam


                1. I don't know how true this is but if the Saudis lose Najran, the Yemenis (Houthi + Saleh) will have clear proof via social media that they have captured the capital of a province, thus one whole entire Saudi province from an army that spends $80 billion on arms.

                2. There may be an internal Saudi palace coup, discreet and dignified but a change of power nevertheless and:

                - the removal of Ibn Salman, the architect of the failed and catastrophic Yemen war.

                - An end to the Yemen war and in return for Najran giving Ali Abdullah Saleh and the Houthis what they want.

                - An end to Saudi backing for rebels in Syria and giving in to some Russian demands too.

                Honestly dude you must have some serious mental issues if you believe blindly AlMasdar.

                This is is such an intellectually dishonest person. Embarrassing fanboy lol
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