Yemeni President vows continuous military operations until capital Sanaa is liberated

ADEN, 3rd February 2016 (WAM) --- Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi has vowed that the national army and pro-government Yemeni National Resistance, backed by the Saudi-led Arab Coalition, will not stop their current military offensives until the capital Sanaa is completely liberated from the rebels. He was speaking over the phone with the governor of Sanaa, Abdul Qawi Sharif, about the field developments in the governorate where the army is closing in on Yemen's capital city. Hadi praised the "unprecedented courage" of the national army and Resistance fighters and stressed that "the republican regime will win, no matter how big our sacrifices may be, and defeat the remnants of the backward clerical imamate regime that came out of the caves of history." "The battle for Yemen is a crucial one and there will be no retreat", President Hadi further stressed. He added that defeating the rebel Houthi militia and forces loyal to now-ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh in many parts of Sanaa governorate is the most crucial step before liberating the capital and reinstating the state institutions and the legitimate government. Tens of rebels were killed, injured and captured and their military equipment were destroyed in the battles, the official added. Earlier, the Yemeni army and Resistance fighters regained control of a number of military posts in Naham after defeating the rebel Houthi-Saleh militias and advanced closer to the strategic Furdat Naham military base. Tens of rebels were killed, injured and captured and their military equipment were destroyed in the battles. – Emirates News Agency, WAM - http://www.wam.ae/en/news/arab/1395291081550.html