{"id":195508,"date":"2019-09-28T19:29:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T19:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195508"},"modified":"2019-10-01T04:18:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T04:18:38","slug":"yemens-houthis-announce-capture-of-hundreds-of-saudi-soldiers-in-najran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195508","title":{"rendered":"Yemen&#8217;s Houthis announce capture of hundreds of Saudi soldiers in Najran"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Xinhua \u2013 Sept 28, 2019<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_191427\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Houthi-fighters2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191427\" class=\"wp-image-191427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Houthi-fighters2-768x321.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Houthi-fighters2-768x321.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Houthi-fighters2-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Houthi-fighters2.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-191427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Houthi fighters. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Scroll down for graphic twitter footage&#8230;<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Yemen&#8217;s Houthi rebels on Saturday announced the fall of three Saudi-led coalition brigades and the capture of hundreds of Saudi soldiers in a large-scale military operation in the Saudi border province of Najran, Houthi TV al-Masirah reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Three Saudi-led coalition brigades fell completely along with their military equipment and troops,&#8221; the television said, citing a statement by the group&#8217;s military spokesman Yahya Sarea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Hundreds of the enemy troops were captured, including Saudi soldiers and officers, while dozens of the enemy troopers were killed and injured during the operation in Najran front,&#8221; Sarea said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;The operation lasted for 72 hours,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Hundreds of kilometers of Saudi Najran province were seized control by our forces,&#8221; the Houthi spokesman said in the live broadcast through al-Masirah, adding that all captured soldiers were moved to &#8220;secure places after coalition airstrikes tried to targeted them.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Sarea promised to release more details and footage on the operation in the next press briefings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There was no Saudi confirmation on the alleged attack yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Hours earlier, the Houthis dismissed reports of reaching a partial cease-fire deal with Saudi Arabia as &#8220;fake news,&#8221; renewing their peace initiative of an all-out halt to war by both Houthis and the kingdom and the lift of economic blockade imposed by the coalition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The initiative came two weeks after the Houthis claimed devastating missile attacks on Saudi-owned largest oil producer Aramco that knocked out half of Saudi oil outputs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Saudi Arabia has been leading an Arab military coalition against Iran-allied Houthis in Yemen for more than four years in support of the exiled internationally-recognized government of Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2019-09\/28\/c_138431791.htm\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\">\u0627\u0644\u062c\u064a\u0634 \u0627\u0644\u064a\u0645\u0646\u064a \u0648\u0627\u0644\u0644\u062c\u0627\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0639\u0628\u064a\u0629 \u064a\u0639\u0644\u0646\u0627\u0646 \u0639\u0646 \u0627\u0646\u062c\u0627\u0632 \u0643\u0628\u064a\u0631 \u0641\u064a \u0646\u062c\u0631\u0627\u0646 \u0627\u062f\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0649 \u0642\u062a\u0644 \u0648\u0627\u0633\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0627\u0644\u0627\u0641 \u0648\u0642\u062f \u062a\u0645 \u062a\u0648\u0632\u064a\u0639 \u0645\u0646\u0630 \u0634\u0647\u0631 \u0641\u064a\u062f\u064a\u0648 \u0639\u0646 \u0639\u0645\u0644\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0633\u0631 \u0636\u062e\u0645\u0629 \u0644\u0645 \u064a\u0639\u0644\u0646 \u0639\u0646\u0647\u0627 \u0641\u064a \u062d\u064a\u0646\u0647 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jWuqbAZ85N\">pic.twitter.com\/jWuqbAZ85N<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u0630\u0648\u0627\u0644\u0641\u0642\u0627\u0631 \u0639\u0644\u064a (@thoulfikar3ali) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thoulfikar3ali\/status\/1177954371461681152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If true this will be the second major blow the Houthis have dealt the Saudis recently and the accompanying twitter footage does seem to partially confirm this <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":191427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195508"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195531,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195508\/revisions\/195531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/191427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}