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SAN’A, Yemen — Saudi Arabian forces seized a strategic mountain straddling the border with Yemen and cleared it of Shiite rebels after five days of fighting that have left three soldiers dead, a defense official said Sunday.
Meanwhile, rebels said they shot down a Yemeni fighter jet. While Yemen acknowledged the crash, it attributed it to a “technical error.”
Saudi forces began shelling and bombing rebel positions last week, dramatically escalating a five-year conflict between Yemen’s weak central government and rebels in the country’s north.
The Saudi government cooperates with Yemen to fight the Shiite rebels, known as Hawthis, out of fears that extremism and instability in Yemen could spill into its country.
