The United Arab Emirates suffered from a severe defeat on Monday in its first and largest battle on the eastern front of Yemen when an offensive by its forces on Mount Helan was fail in Sarawah Directorate of Marib province.

According to military sources spoke to the star piercing that the attack in Mount Helan by UAE received a great failure, and great strategic defeat because of human and material loosing, which painted a scary picture of the mountain confrontations with the army and the Houthis caused a major setback and a rapid decline to the morale of fighters who lost in the attack all leaders who took part in the battle leadership, including the leader of Helan Front.

The offensive began with an air force led by Abdul Hafiz Abu Bakr al-Makeni “Abu Alnour” who is a Salafi leader and commander of a special battalion that follows the third military zone in Marib, and formed by the UAE and does not follow to any brigade from Hadi forces.

According to the field information, the forces that loyal to the UAE reassured to the air cover and began to move towards the mountain by large numbers, but according to military sources told the correspondent Net that the army and Houthi forces did unexpectedly coiling and managed to besiege the members of the special battalion and its leader, “Abu Alnour”, he is the leader of the Helan Front. The sources pointed out that a mortar cannonball hit the rear of the battalion, which led to killing and wounding more than 12 members and caused panic among the battalion ranks.

The sources added that commander of the battalion and commander of the front, “Abu Alnor” was killed early and killed with him 6 of his companions, which caused a complete collapse of the fighters, and joined to him a large number of members of the battalion, and the leadership of the Third Military Region sent urgent reinforcements to lift the siege in conjunction with intensive aerial bombardment led to the escape of a number of members of the battalion.

The sources say that the leader of “Abu Alnour” was in direct contact with the UAE officer “Abu Abdullah Al-EmaratI” that managed the battle of Mount Hilan, and necessity to resolve Mount Hilan front because his strategic importance as it overlooks to all fronts of fighting in Directorate Sarawah.

There is an accusations that the death of “Abu Alnour” came from behind, by treacherous betrayal from behind.

The death of “Abu Alnour” caused a major crevice in the Hellan Front for coalition loyalists and the UAE, his loss was a painful blow led to disruption of the front. The battle was the largest of its kind, where he had previously led multiple attacks when the army and Houthis did not succeed to control of Hellan Front.

Collapse of the loyalists ranks followed by significant losses no less important than the loss of the leader in the front, where the leader Mansour Ghethan leader of the 3rd Battalion in the third region and the leader of Sabri Kebrit al-Saedi al-Hajuri were killed.

The military sources confirm that the bodies of dozens of dead, including the commander of the Helan Front and other leaders killed in the battle is still on the battlefield and any party unable to reach to it because of mutual bombardment.

Amid the refraction of the coalition loyalists and their morale, the Yemeni military media rushed to distribute a recorded tape from its cameras, which was documented with several battle cameras from several directions, and the reporter Net received the scenes and pictures that were available.


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