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Arabia
Ma'rib battle: Yemeni army close to retaking city from Saudi-led forces
2021-02-24
[PRESSTV] Victory appears to be on the horizon in the heated battle for Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
’s strategic central province of Ma’rib as army troops, backed by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have reportedly taken control of most areas there and dislodged Saudi-led coalition forces and Riyadh-backed hard boyz from those regions.

A Yemeni military source, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, told the Arabic service of Russia’s Sputnik news agency that Yemeni soldiers and their allies had encircled Ma’rib city, following weeks of fierce festivities with Saudi-led coalition forces and their mercenaries.

The source added that Yemeni forces had cut off the main supply route into the eastern flank of Ma’rib, which leads to the Arab country’s largest province of Hadhramaut.
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