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| Four Saudi soldiers die in Yemen | Four Saudi soldiers die in Yemen |
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| Four Saudi soldiers have been killed in clashes with Shia rebels near the Yemen border, Saudi state television reports. | Four Saudi soldiers have been killed in clashes with Shia rebels near the Yemen border, Saudi state television reports. |
| Citing Assistant Minister of Defence Prince Khaled bin Sultan, it said the overall death toll of Saudi soldiers in the border conflict now stood at 82. | Citing Assistant Minister of Defence Prince Khaled bin Sultan, it said the overall death toll of Saudi soldiers in the border conflict now stood at 82. |
| Houthi rebels have fought a sporadic insurgency in the region between Sanaa and the Saudi border since 2004. | Houthi rebels have fought a sporadic insurgency in the region between Sanaa and the Saudi border since 2004. |
| Riyadh joined the fighting against the rebels in November, after one of its soldiers was killed along the border. | Riyadh joined the fighting against the rebels in November, after one of its soldiers was killed along the border. |
| In the latest clashes, Saudi forces had regained control of the small border village of al-Jabiri, Prince Khaled bin Sultan said. | |
| "The infiltrators have been eliminated from al-Jabiri and the whole district has been taken under control," he told state-owned al-Ekhbariya television. | |
| He said 21 Saudi soldiers were missing. | |
| While the conflict between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis began recently, fighting between the rebels from the minority Shia Zaidi sect and the Yemeni government has occurred sporadically since 2004. | |
| According to the latest UN figures, an estimated 200,000 people have been displaced since then. | |
| Alongside the fighting in the North and a secessionist movement in the South, Western policymakers believe al-Qaeda is gaining a foothold in Yemen. | |
| Last week, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said instability in Yemen was a global as well as regional threat. |