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September 1(Darfur 24) Six Sudanese soldiers including an officer with a rank of captain and a first lieutenant were killed in the Dhahran region in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday as they clashed with the Houthi group.
Sudanese forces have been participating in the Saudi-led coalition since 2015 to fight the Houthi group, which seized power in Yemen after the killing of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, whose rule was overthrown by the Yemeni revolution.
Special sources told Darfur 24 that Sudanese forces in the Dhahran region clashed with Houthi gunmen in the Qahr al-Azil area leaving 6 Sudanese soldiers dead and three others injured.
Sudan, one of the poorest countries in the world, has sent thousands of soldiers to fight in Yemen and Saudi Arabia alongside the Arab coalition forces..
troops include men from the notorious Janjaweed militia, which is accused of atrocities in the conflict that erupted in 2003 in Sudan’s western Darfur region.
Spokesman for the Yemeni armed forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, announced last March that the death toll of Sudanese nationals who are fighting within the coalition forces in Yemen has reached 9,440, while the Sudanese forces say that the figures announced by the Yemeni army are psychological warfare.
The Yemen conflict, which began in 2014 after the Huthis seized Sanaa, has sparked what the United Nations calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.