Yemeni armed forces, allies will soon liberate Ma’rib, other regions: Houthi

A high-ranking member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council says Yemeni armed forces and their allied fighters from Popular Committees will soon liberate the strategic central province of Mar’ib as well as other regions from the grip of Saudi-led coalition forces and their mercenaries.

“God willing, Ma’rib and other regions will be liberated soon. We are withstanding a campaign of aggression and war, which Saudi Arabia, [the United States of] America, Britain, France, the United Arab Emirates and others have imposed on us…,” Mohammed Ali al-Houthi said on Monday.

He added that Saudi and Emirati paramilitary forces, militants loyal to Yemen's former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, Sudanese mercenaries, and mercenaries from the US-based private military firm, Academi – formerly known as Blackwater – in addition to other foreign troops have been fighting against Yemeni forces.

“We are in a suitable position to defend our land and counter occupation,” Houthi pointed out.

Yemeni army liberates Ma’rib area from grip of Saudi-led terrorists

Yemeni army soldiers and allied fighters from Popular Committees establish control over a neighborhood in Ma’rib Province as they continue to push against Saudi-led mercenaries and terrorists in the strategic region.

Over the past few weeks, Ma’rib has been the scene of large-scale operations by Yemeni troops and allied Popular Committees fighters, who are pushing against Saudi-sponsored pro-Hadi militants.

Sultan al-Sama'i, a member of Yemen's Supreme Political Council, said on Saturday that Yemeni army troops and Popular Committees fighters will liberate the neighboring provinces of Shabwah and Hadhramaut after establishing full control over Ma’rib.

He told al-Mayadeen television news network that the Saudi-led coalition has reaped “nothing but shame from the war, and the prestige of Saudi Arabia and its allies has been badly damaged.”

Sama'i said it was the United States that provoked Saudi Arabia into aggression against Yemen.

Yemeni forces continue struggle against Saudi-led forces, establish security in areas of Ma’rib province

Yemeni forces successfully establish security in areas in Jabal Murad District, located in the southwest of Ma’rib province.

He added that Yemeni armed forces have located “hundreds of vital targets deep inside Saudi Arabia that will be struck in case the aggression and siege continue.”

“We are determined to remove Saudi-led coalition forces from all Yemeni provinces. Liberation of every iota of Yemen's land is a national and religious duty, independent from the path of negotiations,” he said.

'Human rights mustn’t be subjected to political, military blackmail’

Meanwhile, the spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has repeated his call on the Saudi-led coalition waging a devastating military campaign against his country to completely stop their aggression, lift total blockade of Yemen and refrain from subjecting human rights to political and military blackmail.

“At the threshold of the seventh year [of Yemen war], we remind member states of the coalition of aggression that they must end their onslaught in a comprehensive manner and lift the siege completely,” Mohammed Abdul-Salam said in a post published on his Twitter page on Monday.

على أعتاب العام السابع نذكر
دول العدوان بوجوب إنهاء عدوانها بشكل شامل ورفع الحصار بشكل كامل، وضرورة الفصل بين ما هو حق إنساني كإعادة فتح مطار صنعاء وميناء الحديدة بما لا يكون ذلك خاضعاً للابتزاز السياسي والعسكري .

— محمد عبدالسلام (@abdusalamsalah) March 22, 2021

He also stressed the need to “separate human rights, such as the reopening of Sana’a airport and the port of Hudaydah, from political issues. This must not be subjected to political and military blackmail at all.”

Yemen's top political official, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, said on Saturday that the ongoing conflict in Yemen will finish once the Saudi-led coalition puts an end to its aggressive military campaign and lifts its tight blockade.

“The coalition of aggression member states and their allies besiege the Yemeni nation, attack, invade and occupy parts of our motherland, and at the same time call on us to stop fighting,” he wrote in a series of posts published on his Twitter page.

No peace in sight for Yemen unless attacks and siege end, foreign troops leave: Senior official

A senior Yemeni official says there will be no peace in Yemen unless the siege is lifted and the foreign mercenaries leave the country.

The senior member of Yemen's Supreme Political Council said that Yemeni forces did not initiate the war, demanding the Saudi-led coalition withdraw its forces in order for peace to prevail.

Saudi Arabia, backed by the US and Riyadh's other allies, launched a devastating military campaign on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing Hadi’s government back to power and crushing the popular Ansarullah movement.

The Yemeni armed forces and allied popular groups have, however, gone from strength to strength against the Saudi-led invaders, and left Riyadh and its allies bogged down in the country.

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