Days after an attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on the Saudi border, a Bahraini soldier was killed, the military said, marking the Gulf nation’s fifth defeat in more than a month.
The Bahrain Defense Forces, part of a Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed rebels since 2015, said the soldier had died of his injuries after Monday’s attack.
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Days after an attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on the Saudi border, a Bahraini soldier was killed, the military said, marking the Gulf nation’s fifth defeat in more than a month.
The Bahrain Defense Forces, part of a Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed rebels since 2015, said the soldier had died of his injuries after Monday’s attack.
“Major Mohamed Salem Mohamed Anbar died of 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.
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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.
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