Washington - SANA
The United States announced today its intention to support the Saudi regime with an additional 3,000 troops under the pretext of the recent attack on Saudi Aramco's oil installations, in a new affirmation of Washington's support and encouragement for the continuation of this regime's aggression on Yemen, which has left humanitarian catastrophes and civilian casualties.
The Pentagon plans to send a large number of additional troops and equipment to Saudi Arabia, including air defenses and fighter jets, the Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement. .
Hoffman said US Defense Secretary Mark Esper approved the deployment of additional troops, including two Patriot batteries as well as the THAD missile defense system. .
The Yemeni armed forces announced in a statement recently that it carried out a massive offensive operation with 10 drones targeting two oil facilities belonging to Saudi Aramco in eastern Saudi Arabia in response to the crimes of the Saudi aggression alliance, which led to the disruption of 50 percent of the company's production.
