Yemen rebels attack Saudi military border post

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Saudi-led coalition airstrikes hit Sana'a - © Yahya Arhab, EPA
Yemen's Houthi rebels attacked a Saudi border military site and caused unspecified casualties, a Houthi official said on Thursday, as a Saudi-led coalition mounted new airstrikes against the Iran-backed rebels in the impoverished country.
A member of the Houthi politburo, Ali al-Quhum, said that the rebels and allied tribal fighters raided the outpost overnight in the Saudi border town of Najran in retaliation for the Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen, according to dpa.
"The popular committees [Houthi insurgents] and tribes will continue to attack Saudi positions as long as the Saudi aggression continues on Yemen," al-Quhum said.
The Houthis' al-Masirah television reported that 18 Saudi troops were killed in an overnight attack by the rebels on a military site on the Saudi border near Yemen's northern province of Saada, the stronghold of the Houthis.
It was not clear if the reported attack was the same cited by al-Quhum.
There was no comment from the Saudi-led alliance.
Local journalists, meanwhile, said that at least 20 Houthi fighters were killed in airstrikes by Saudi-led coalition warplanes on the area of Habsh between Saada and the neighbouring Yemeni province of Jawf.
The violence comes hours after the United Nations announced Yemen peace talks on May 28 in Geneva.
The Houthis, who control large parts of Yemen, have said they are ready to attend UN-sponsored talks in any neutral country.
Yemen's exiled government said it would not join the Geneva talks unless the Houthis withdrew from cities they had seized, as mandated by a United Nations Security Council resolution passed in April.
Most of Yemen's main cities, including the capital Sana'a, have fallen to the Houthis since September, or are contested between the mainly Shiite rebels and local opponents.
Saudi Arabia and a coalition of mainly Sunni Arab allies started a campaign of airstrikes against the Houthis and allied military units in late March after internationally recognized President Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi fled a rebel advance on his stronghold in the southern city of Aden.
Hadi, who is a Sunni, is now living in Saudi Arabia.          

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