The Manama National Army, part of the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed rebels since 2015, announced on Monday that a Bahraini soldier had died from injuries sustained in an attack by Yemen’s Houthis.
A Bahraini soldier has been killed, the military said, days after an attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. [Manuel Augusto Moreno/Getty-file photo]
Days after an attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on the Saudi border left one Bahraini soldier dead, the military announced its fifth defeat in just over a month for the Gulf nation.
The Bahrain Defense Forces announced that it is part of a Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed rebels since 2015.
“Major Mohamed Salem Mohamed Anbar died from severe injuries as a result of an act of aggression by Houthi forces,” the government said in a statement late Thursday, without giving details of the attack.
Late last month, four Bahraini soldiers were killed in a drone attack near the Saudi-Yemeni border, the country’s biggest loss since 2015, when five soldiers were killed.
The death toll comes as Saudi Arabia promotes a peace process in the Arabian Peninsula’s poorest country, which is suffering a major humanitarian crisis due to war.
Since a U.N.-brokered ceasefire took effect last year, hostilities have declined dramatically, even after the ceasefire expired in October.
Bahrain was one of several countries that provided troops to the coalition after the Houthis ousted the internationally recognized government from the capital Sanaa in 2014.