Pro-government
Popular Resistance fighters, supported by UAE armored units and troops and
Saudi-led airstrikes, recaptured Al-Anad airbase, the country largest military
base, after heavy combat with Houthi insurgents who had taken the base earlier
this year, Reuters quoting a
government commander, reported today.
“The
national army and the Popular Resistance have completed control of Al-Anad
military and air base,” said Brig. Gen. Fadel Hassan. (Reuters/Arab News, 3
August)
The
recapture of Al-Anad provides a strategic base of operation for the Arab
coalition and opens up the road north to the city of Taiz, Yemen’s third
largest, where Houthi insurgents and pro-government fighters have been locked
in combat.
Earlier
today, images posted on the Twitter showed a column of UAE’s LeClerc main
battle tanks and BMP armored vehicles, including M-ATVs, deployed in a port in
Aden and heading toward Al-Anad. There were also reports of 3,000 Arab
coalitions troops deployed in Aden today.
Photo
credit: Image posted on Twitter showing a column of UAE tanks heading toward Al-Anad military base after being deployed in a port in Aden (Twitter/@saikhamk, 3
August)
