The losses amid the Saudi-led coalition at the hands of the Yemeni army forces

YemenExtra

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The Sniping Unit of the Yemeni army forces revealed on Friday the number of the Saudi-led coalition, backed by the US, soldiers and paid fighters that were killed and wounded in its operations in various fronts the last week.

A source in the Sniping Unit said that “more than 235 paid fighters were killed and wounded, including Saudi soldiers, during successful operations in various fronts during the last week.”

Over 879 paid fighters were killed and wounded during sniping operations in various fronts on October.

In March 2015, the US -backed –Saudi-led coalition 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 60,000 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.

Despite the coalition claims that it is bombing the positions of the Ansarullah fighters, Saudi bombers are flattening residential areas and civilian infrastructures.

More than 2,200 others have died of cholera, and the crisis has triggered what the United Nations has described as the world’s worst humanitarian disaster.

However, Saudi Arabia relies heavily on the US in its brutal war on Yemen. Washington has deployed a commando force on the Arab kingdom’s border with Yemen to help destroy arms belonging to Yemen’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement. Washington has also provided logistical support and aerial refueling.