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| Saudi commander killed in mine blast near Yemen border | |
| 2015-09-26 | |
| [Iran Press TV] A senior Saudi commander has been killed in a mine blast in the country's southwestern province of Jizan near the border with war-torn Yemen. Yemen's al-Masirah TV reported on Friday that the Saudi colonel and two other military staff, including a high-ranking officer, were slain in the al-Khobe region of the province during festivities with the Yemeni Ansarullah fighters supported by army units that had penetrated into the Saudi territory. The Saudi media have also confirmed the death of the commander, identified as Hassan Ghashoum Aghili (seen below). Yemeni forces have so far killed scores of Saudi military forces in border regions, as Riyadh continues its deadly aggression against the impoverished neighbor. Earlier in the day, Saudi airborne assaults targeted positions in the southwestern Yemeni city of Ta'izz, leaving 13 people, including three children, dead. Several others were maimed in the aerial strikes. Saudi warplanes also launched eight Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, the partisans of Honorius went for their knives and the partisans of Stilicho went for the doors... ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... was targeting and killing civilians in the Arabian Peninsula country by US-made weapons.
The men were killed by heavy gunfire from the Yemen side of the border on Friday after their patrol vehicle was hit by a mine explosion, the ministry said. | |
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