DUBAI: Dozens of Iran-backed Houthi militants have been killed and several others wounded in attacks by the Yemeni army in the Al-Bayda governate, Saudi state-news channel Al-Ekhbariya reported.
A Yemeni military source said that the skirmishes between the army and the militia members were concentrated between the mountains of Al-Faliq and Masouda.
In a statement carried on the Yemeni Ministry of Defense’s website “September 26,” the source said that the clashes resulted in several dead and wounded within the militia, with 13 of them being captured.
Arab coalition fighters also launched raids targeting Houthi positions in Al-Bayda, which resulted in the destruction of a number of combat units and military weaponry.
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Yemen Army captures 13 Houthi militants in Al-Bayda governorate
Yemen Army captures 13 Houthi militants in Al-Bayda governorate
Israeli military says it will pursue every successor of Iran’s Khamenei
- The clerical body that will choose Iran’s next supreme leader has more or less reached a majority consensus
- Minor disagreement over whether their final decision must follow an in-person meeting or instead be issued
The Israeli military warned it would continue pursuing every successor of Iran’s next supreme leader.
In a post on X in Farsi, the Israeli military also warned it would pursue every person who seeks to appoint a successor for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, referring to the clerical body charged with choosing the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader.
The clerical body that will choose Iran’s next supreme leader, succeeding the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has more or less reached a majority consensus, Assembly of Experts member Ayatollah Mohammadmehdi Mirbaqeri said on Sunday.
The Mehr news agency quoted him as saying “some obstacles” still needed to be resolved regarding the process.
On Saturday, a senior cleric in the Assembly of Experts said its members would meet “within one day” to choose the leader.
Iranian media said the group had a minor disagreement over whether their final decision must follow an in-person meeting or instead be issued without adhering to this formality.
Ayatollah Mohsen Heidari Alekasir, another member of the Assembly of Experts, said in a video released by Nournews on Sunday that an in-person meeting by the assembly for a final vote was not possible under current conditions.
He said a candidate had been picked, based on the late supreme leader’s advice that Iran’s top leader should “be hated by the enemy” instead of praised by it.
“Even the Great Satan (US) has mentioned his name,” Heidari Alekasir said of the chosen successor, days after US President Donald Trump said that Khamenei’s son, Mojtaba, was an “unacceptable” choice for him.
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