Saudi Arabia Suffers Enormous Military Defeat on Yemen Border
A brigade worth of mercenaries in Saudi service shattered and captured along with numerous weapons and armored vehicles

Personally I’m skeptical of the claimed extent of Houthi victory, 500 killed and wounded and 2000 captured Saudis seems fantastic, but there is enough here to confirm one hundred percent that there was indeed a big (one-sided) fight which the Houthi won handily.
Likely what they’re doing isn’t so much exaggerating the numbers as conflating foreign mercenaries and local Yemeni fighters salaried by the Saudis with the actual Saudi army, which has an exalted tradition of “leading from behind” and isn’t at all eager to get itself shot at by the Houthi and the army of the Sanaa government.
Apparently there is a thing where the Saudis have delegated the protection of their own border with Houthi-held Yemen to mercenary troops they recruit from Yemen (meaning these formations are even notionally not under the Hadi government), and in Arab-speaking countries.
Also I’m not sure where the battle took place, the Houthi say it was in Saudi Arabia’s southern Najran region, but they have presented battles that actually took place in the Yemeni Najran as having taken place in Saudi before. Mind you the fact they were able to achieve such a surprise probably means it was indeed in Saudi.
Footage from today’s video published by Houthis: pro-Saudi fighters fleeing leaving behind a long column of armored vehicles. from YemeniCrisis
Houthi officials reached by phone in Sanaa said that the vast majority of the 2,000 captured soldiers were Yemeni soldiers fighting with the coalition and that about a dozen were Saudi nationals. – by @raghavanWaPohttps://t.co/ujgM1oIVDk https://t.co/hrEdB601X8
— Joshua Landis (@joshua_landis) September 29, 2019
Yemenis are recruited by Saudi Arabia through middle men & outside government chain of command to protect Saudi borders from Houthis for 1500 KSA Rials/ mo. They are the ones inn the video – via @Ndawsari https://t.co/v3AeDA0t93
— Joshua Landis (@joshua_landis) September 29, 2019
“Yemeni Armed Forces show scenes of thousands of Saudi Coalition prisoners:”
Houthis of Yemen now showing photos of the military vehicles and some 2,000 Saudi soldiers they claim to have taken prisoner in attack in Najran https://t.co/Am8nCEcwKy
— Joshua Landis (@joshua_landis) September 29, 2019
Yemen Houthis released footage of attack on "Saudi" troops in Najran province https://t.co/mWZc7k294m
— Harry Boone (@towersight) September 29, 2019
Frappes de drone sur ses installations petrolieres..mechante embuscade au Sud..petre falloir penser a trouver une sortie de crise vot' altesse..
Salang Style in southern Saudi pic.twitter.com/3NwyBCWd3y
— Harry Boone (@towersight) September 29, 2019
Brrrrt on track
Yemen Houthis captured two
M163s VADS (Vulcan Air Defense System) M113s fitted with 20mm Gatling gun pic.twitter.com/PL2Y4wI3QH— Harry Boone (@towersight) September 29, 2019
Several "made in Jordan' Al-Wahsh MRAP vehicles captured /destroyed by houthis at KSA – Yemen border pic.twitter.com/5PjOWLdz5d
— Harry Boone (@towersight) September 29, 2019
Some Streit Spartan armored 4X4s captured by houthis
The lost army pic.twitter.com/grRZGKt1iM— Harry Boone (@towersight) September 29, 2019
Houthi fighter with a FN2000 assault rifle grabbed from Saudi LAV IFV wreck..
"Trigger finger discipline is for pussy " 🤔🙊🙈
Mangalore style pic.twitter.com/9X5IV9Y0YJ— Harry Boone (@towersight) September 29, 2019
Saudi soldiers stopped vehicles aside and started to run away on feet!
They never knew that the whole area was besieged!
More than 2000 surrendered or detained, some ran away.
300+ were killed by Saudi airstrikes while surrendering or after that.
Operation Victory From God pic.twitter.com/XL9LoOTlpb
— Nasser Arrabyee (@narrabyee) September 29, 2019
And this is how,when Saudi armored vehicles with soldiers on board started to retreat not knowing they'r already besieged from all directions in the whole area
That's what the sight looked like when soldiers got off the vehicles,started to climb mountains only to be captured! pic.twitter.com/68tXmv1kKl
— Nasser Arrabyee (@narrabyee) September 29, 2019
https://twitter.com/nm79797979/status/1178287324259606529
It will be a cake walk MBS said over in a week he said and they will be throwing rose petals at our feet, he saidhttps://t.co/mIO3QF1bGf https://t.co/ORYrhHPFaR
— Aly-Khan Satchu (@alykhansatchu) September 30, 2019
Remember all those LAVs and armoured cars Canada sold to #SaudiArabia during @JustinTrudeau's leadership?
Now some are in the hands of Iranian-backed #yemeni military. @RebelNewsOnline @manny_ottawa @ezralevant https://t.co/jeyKY40q5a
— Dave Erickson (@daemondave) September 30, 2019
And this is some of Saudi armored vehicles that were destroyed by Saudi airstrikes which killed about 300 Saudi fighters while fleeing&going to the hands of Yemen fighters!
And some set to fire,burned by Yemeni fighters.
But a lot of this hardware remain intact,in safe place! pic.twitter.com/RhFlpeWXcA
— Nasser Arrabyee (@narrabyee) September 29, 2019
And this isYemen minister of defense,Mohammed Atefi, driving a Saudi armored vehicle in Najran south Saudi Arabia
Very few Saudi vehicles were destroyed by Saudi airstrikes!
Some were set on fire by Yemeni fightersBut a lot remain intact like this1
Operation Victory from God pic.twitter.com/u4QcNHsga3
— Nasser Arrabyee (@narrabyee) September 29, 2019
And this is the video of some of the Saudi war prisoners.
Saudi nationals and mercenaries from Yemen, Sudan, and others.
Operation Victory from God.
— Nasser Arrabyee (@narrabyee) September 29, 2019
This is the video of some of the vehicles captured in the Yemen major operation against Saudi forces.pic.twitter.com/p0QZ0FGs2L
— Nasser Arrabyee (@narrabyee) September 29, 2019
What’s been exposed also (if you seek news outside the US) is that few if any Saudis were killed or captured in this important battle.. The Saudi armed forces below about the rank of Major are virtually all Mercenaries.. and in the Yemen debacle those captured were likely all poor Pakistanis fighting for pay. This is exactly what Trump is now wanting to subject our armed forces too.. being mercenaries for the despotic Saudi Monarchs who can’t get their own population to fight for them. Tulsi Gabbard was/is entirely right about these moves by Trump. Illegal, immoral, treasonous.
Thank you for a more detailed report on this attack.
Some good reports last night, but the additional details is much welcomed.
It would seem the rumours on the Saudis, as a “fighting force”, has now been proven. Several times.
The Saudis are nothing but a bunch of COWARDLY, psychopathic, blood-thirsty, child rapists, baby killers. Not really a surprise, look who trained them over these last 30-40 years. Another cowardly country.
It is so nice when the TRUTH gets exposed on MSM, and then watch the ‘demons’ scurry about trying to lie and obfuscate.
As for believing actual “battle numbers”… I don’t. There hasn’t been a decent BDA (for public release) done since …. well, ever. Not WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq I, Iraq II, Afghanistan, Syria…
The news that the Saudis are using Yemeni mercenaries was just too f n funny.
UAE… you’re next. I wonder if they are as egomaniacally stupid as their Saudi cousins.
This Reminds me of the Great Movie called “Dune”. The
Houthis and Iran can easily stop the production of spices and destroy the world economy.
All these captives should be lined up and mowed down then pushed into a trench. Why would the Yemens allow this scum to keep breathing? KILL THEM ALL.
The Yemen war and tragedy has to stop.. Perhaps the only way is more punishing strikes on SA and decisive battles? Simple diplomacy and adherence to international Law would be preferred.
About the claims of the Yemeni Government of 2000 POWs? this is certainly a mixed-blessing victory since there are already many thousands of starving people in Yemen and now they will have to feed and house 2000 enemies. 🙁
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Press TV footage:
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/09/29/607432/Yemeni-Army-release-footage-of-Victory-from-God-Almighty-offensive-against-Najran