Since the commencement of military operations in Sa’adah City on Monday, the number of surrendered or captured suspected al-Houthi rebels has risen to ninety, thirty of whom are women, a security source embedded in Sa’adah confirmed on Saturday.

The estimated 400 rebels who remain in the northwest sector of Sa’adah are facing an increasingly pressing military blockade.

Until the national armed forces entered into Sa’adah’s old city on Monday, al-Houthi forces had controlled large swaths of the city.

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Security sources told Almotamar.net on Monday that units of the Central Security and others from the armed forces have on Monday started a large-scale operation for clearing the city of Saada from the terrorist elements that have been taking mosques and citizens’ houses their strongholds.

The sources added that the operation was done in residential areas of Al-Rout, Al-Shaab, Al-Jarba and Bab Najran after evacuation of citizens from their houses through call with loudspeakers.

The sources added that the operation, up to now, resulted in killing a number of terrorists and the surrender of 25 of their elements to armed forces.

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Chávez: “Israel threatened us and we will act accordingly”
“We will be together until the end,” Ahmadinejad said to the Venezuelan President.

President Hugo Chávez and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reaffirmed their brotherhood against the “imperialist enemy”.

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Venezuelan counterpart, Hugo Chávez, exchanged praise and reaffirmed their brotherhood “against imperialist threats.”

Chávez welcomed the Iranian leader, calling him an “anti-imperialist gladiator,” and a “brother and friend” in the struggle of “two free countries” (against imperialism). Meanwhile, Ahmadinejad described Chávez as a “brave brother,” and a man “who resists like a mountain.”

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Saudi Arabia says it has captured a strategic mountain area near its border with Yemen from Yemeni Shia rebels.

Saudi forces detained about 150 Ethiopians and Somalis as prisoners of war as they cleared the area, Saudi Arabia’s deputy defence minister said.

The Houthi rebels denied that the area, which is known as Jabal al-Dood or Jabal Mudood, had been taken.

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JAZAN: Saudi forces continued pounding rebel positions on the Saudi-Yemeni border on Monday causing heavy losses to Yemeni infiltrators.

“The Saudi Royal Air Force launched several strikes at rebel positions accompanied by artillery shelling by ground forces inflicting heavy losses on the rebels on Monday morning. The ground forces continued search and flush operations to clear the area close to the border … Saudi Naval Forces also continued operations,” said sources at the Saudi-Yemen border.

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