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The civil war in Yemen, which had a four-year ceasefire, broke out in July this year and the fighting resumed. The youth movement and the Saudi coalition forces continue to confront each other.
The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed to have shot down a helicopter of the Saudi-led coalition. The picture shows armed personnel of the youth movement on guard.
Just after the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed to have shot down a helicopter of the Saudi-led coalition, the coalition confirmed on the 18th that a helicopter crashed in Saudi Arabia on the Yemeni border due to a "technical failure" and that two pilots died.
This is the first time that the coalition has reported military casualties since the war between the Saudi Arabian coalition and the "Youth Movement" resumed in July this year.
According to the Saudi Press Agency, a coalition spokesman, Turki al-Maliki, said: "An AH-6i reconnaissance helicopter belonging to the Ministry of National Guard (Ministry of National Guard) crashed in the Najran area of Saudi Arabia due to a technical failure... resulting in the death of the crew - two pilots."
Previously, the "Youth Movement" military spokesman Yahya Saree claimed on the evening of the 17th that the organization "shot down an Apache helicopter belonging to the enemy of Saudi Arabia" in the same area.
The civil war in Yemen, which had a four-year ceasefire, broke out in July this year and the fighting resumed. The "Youth Movement" captured a strategic location on the Red Sea coast last month. A week ago, it launched a bloody attack on the international airport in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, killing 13 people. It was the deadliest attack Saudi Arabia has experienced in more than 10 years.
Mariqi, spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Yemeni rebel Youth Movement, spoke at a press conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia's coalition leading the fight against the Yemeni rebel Youth Movement said a helicopter crashed near the Yemeni border due to a technical failure, killing two pilots. This was the coalition's first loss of life since the conflict resumed in July.

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