Saudis take mountain from rebels near Yemen border
SAN’A, Yemen — Saudi Arabian forces seized a strategic mountain straddling the border with Yemen and cleared it of Shiite rebels after five days of fighting that have left three Saudi Soldiers dead, a Saudi defense official said Sunday.

Saudis bomb rebels near Yemen border
SAN‘A, Yemen — Saudi Arabia sent fighter jets and artillery bombardments across the border into northern Yemen Thursday in a Military incursion that Arab diplomats and the rebels said was apparently aimed at helping its troubled southern neighbor control an escalating Shiite rebellion.

Saudi: Airstrikes near Yemen targeted infiltrators
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia said Friday it carried out airstrikes against "infiltrators" from Yemen that were limited to areas inside Saudi territory, and vowed to press on with the Military action until the border with its restive neighbor was secure. The statement, carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, did not identify the infiltrators or address claims by Arab diplomats on Thursday that the strikes hit across the boundary, targeting Shiite rebels who have been battling Yemeni...

Saudi Arabia bombs Yemeni rebels
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Saudi Arabia bombed rebels in Yemen Thursday, a day after a Saudi soldier was killed by "infiltrators," officials said. The air raids were aimed at Houthi rebels, a group trying to oust the Yemeni government, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Houthi are Shiite Muslims and do not have ties to al-Qaida, the newspaper said. Saudi Arabia has one of the most modern militaries in the Middle East, but one that is seldom used. The air raids were a rare instance...

Saudi prince says his country takes control of mountain away from Yemeni rebels
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia's assistant defense minister says his forces have taken control of a mountain straddling the border with Yemen and cleared it of Shiite rebels. Prince Khaled bin Sultan is quoted by the official Saudi Press Agency as saying his Troops are still dealing with rebel infiltrators in other spots along the frontier but that his forces have not entered northern Yemen. Bin Sultan said Sunday after visiting the border that the Saudi side of Dokhan Mountain had...

BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition: Saudi deaths in border fighting
This is a syndicated post. Original article from BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition , available at BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition . Saudi Arabia says three Soldiers died and four are missing fighting with rebels on its border with Yemen.

NYT > World: Saudis Claim to Beat Back Yemeni Rebels in Border Area
This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Houthi rebels dismissed Saudi Arabia's claim, saying Saudi Troops had “collapsed” and retreated from the area.

Saudis 'push back Yemen rebels'
Saudi Arabia says its Troops are ready to defend the border areas Saudi Arabia says it has regained control of territory seized by Yemeni rebels in a cross-border incursion. Saudi officials say their forces struck after Shia rebels attacked a patrol in the Asir region, killing one soldier. Three more Soldiers died in the fighting, officials say, but they deny rebel claims that others were captured. The rebels, known as Houthis, say they are fighting discrimination in Yemen and accuse Saudi...

Saudis continue attacks on northern Yemen: PHOTO
Saudi forces say they have launched a major attack on Houthi positions, leaving an unknown number of fighters dead in the northern parts of the country. At the fifth day of the kingdom's airstrikes on Yemen's mountainous north, Saudi forces said their Aircraft have been targeting Houthi positions near the border town of Al-Khubah, AFP reported on Sunday. Saudi medics, meanwhile, said seven Saudis were killed and 126 others were wounded since the fighting first erupted on Wednesday. According to...

Saudis continue attacks on northern Yemen: PHOTO
Saudi forces say they have launched a major attack on Houthi positions, leaving an unknown number of fighters dead in the northern parts of the country. At the fifth day of the kingdom's airstrikes on Yemen's mountainous north, Saudi forces said their Aircraft have been targeting Houthi positions near the border town of Al-Khubah, AFP reported on Sunday. Saudi medics, meanwhile, said seven Saudis were killed and 126 others were wounded since the fighting first erupted on Wednesday. According to...

Saudis 'retake captured territory'
Saudi Arabia has regained control of an area of territory seized by Yemeni rebels in an incursion last week, a senior defence official in the kingdom has said. Saudi Arabia began air raids and artillery bombardments against the Houthi group after its fighters crossed from northern Yemen and reportedly took control of the area called Jebel al-Dukhan. "The situation is calm ... especially in Jebel al-Dukhan, of which full control has been regained," Prince Khaled bin Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz, the...

Saudis claim control of region from Yemeni rebels
(CNN) -- Saudi Arabia said Sunday that it has regained control of a mountainous region from Yemeni rebels who it said entered the kingdom's borders. "The Saudi region of Jabal Dokhan is back under full and complete Saudi control," Prince Khalid bin Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz, the assistant defense minister , told the state-run Saudi Press Agency. "Our directive ... was to fix and take control of the situation only within our borders and not to interfere inside Yemen 's borders."

'Saudi fighter jets using phosphorous bombs'
Houthi fighters in Yemen say Saudi fighter jets are using phosphorous bombs to back a deadly Yemeni government offensive against them. "Saudi combat fighter jets launched intense raids against border areas inside Yemeni territory on Sunday night," the fighters' spokesman Mohammad Abdessalam told AFP by telephone. "The Saudi Military used phosphorus bombs during those night raids, burning mountainous regions," he said adding that "The Saudi air raids resumed this morning (Monday). " Abdessalam...

Saudi air force hits Yemen rebels in border raid
Saudi Arabia has launched heavy Air Strikes on rebels in northern Yemen and is moving Troops nearer the border after a raid into its territory by the Shi'ite insurgents, a Saudi government adviser said today.

'Yemeni fighters shot down fighter jet'
Yemen's Houthi fighters say they have shot down a fighter jet during clashes with government forces in north-western Yemen. "Our anti-Aircraft batteries shot down a Military plane, which carried out bombings in the city of Razeh, near the border with Saudi Arabia," Abdessalam Mohammad, a spokesman for the fighters, told AFP. This is while, the Yemeni Military said the plane crashed due to technical problems. The Sukhoi plane crashed during a raid on suspected strongholds of the Houthi fighters...

Saudi Arabia says regains area seized by Yemen rebels
DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has regained control of territory seized by Yemeni rebels in a cross-border incursion last week that prompted a Military response from Riyadh, a top official was quoted as saying. "The situation is calm ... especially in Jabal Dukhan, of which full control has been regained," Prince Khaled bin Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz, assistant minister for defence and aviation, said on Saturday, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). Saudi Arabia on Thursday launched air...

Yemeni rebels say Saudi cross-border bombardments hit their stronghold in the north
SAN'A, Yemen — Saudi warplanes and artillery bombarded a Shiite rebel stronghold in northern Yemen Saturday for a third straight day, according to the rebel fighters, and Yemen's president vowed to wipe out the insurrection. The sporadic five-year conflict between Yemen's weak central government and rebels in the north of the impoverished country escalated dramatically this week when Saudi Military forces began shelling and bombing rebel positions. The two nations are cooperating and...

Saudis claim control of region from Yemeni rebels
Saudi Arabia said Sunday that it has regained control of a mountainous region from Yemeni rebels who it said entered the kingdom's borders.

Saudis claim control of region from Yemeni rebels
Saudi Arabia said Sunday that it has regained control of a mountainous region from Yemeni rebels who it said entered the kingdom's borders.

Saudi strikes to continue until Yemen rebels ejected
Riyadh, Nov 6

Saudi Arabia takes land back from rebels
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Saudi Arabia said Sunday it has assumed control of the region of Jabal Dokhan, which was temporarily under the control of Yemeni rebels. Saudi Arabia's assistant defense minister, Prince Khalid bin Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz, said the rebels entered his country's borders and the measures taken to re-assume control of Jabal Dokhan occurred entirely within Saudi Arabia, CNN reported. "Our directive... was to fix and take control of the situation only within our...

Saudi Arabia pushes back Yemeni rebels
Saudi Forces reportedly liberated a mountainous province on its southern border on Sunday after five-days of intensive fighting with Shia rebels from Yemen.

Saudi Arabia repulses Yemeni rebels
On Sunday, Saudi Arabia said that it has regained control of a mountainous region from Yemeni rebels who it said entered the kingdom's borders. Prince

Deadly Saudi-Yemen border clashes
Seven Saudis and an unknown number of Houthi fighters have been killed as Saudi forces battle Yemen rebels for the fifth straight day, medics have said. Saudi commanders said Troops were shelling suspected Houthi positions on Saturday and plumes of smoke could be seen rising above the Jebel al-Dukhan peak that marks the frontier near the border town of Al-Khubah.

Houthis nab Saudi troops, as Riyadh vows more raids
While Houthi fighters say they have captured Saudi Troops inside Yemeni territory, Riyadh vows to continue pounding the fighters' positions and border villages in northern Yemen. Saudi Arabia's airstrikes in the border region of Jabal al-Dukhan has so far killed dozens of Yemeni civilians. The kingdom has also deployed armed forces along its border and has threatened a ground incursion into northern Yemen. Riyadh claims that the aerial attacks targeted Houthi positions on "Saudi territory" and...