About 12 Green Berets were deployed to the Saudi border with Yemen in late 2017 shortly after the Houthis fired a Burkan H-2 short-range ballistic missile at Riyadh, The New York Times reported.

Though Saudi Arabia and the UAE are occupying parts of Yemen, the countries rely on Yemeni, Latin American, Sudanese, Blackwater and even al-Qaeda mercenaries to fight on the ground.

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Other factions fighting for slices of Yemeni territory include al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and the Islamic State. Since 2015, U.S. military support to the Saudi-led coalition has remained in ...

A team of elite US soldiers called the Green Berets were deployed in secret last year to the Saudi Arabia-Yemen border to help defeat the Houthi rebels.. Since the Yemen conflict began three years ...

The military site near the Red Sea sat mostly idle for several years until a recent burst of activity turned it into a supply ...

Saudi Arabia and Iran held their first-ever joint naval drills in the Gulf of Oman, their ministries revealed this week, in what would seem to be a sign of rapprochement between the longtime ...

Iran says Saudi Arabia will take part in joint military exercises in the Red Sea, a historic first for the former regional rivals who only just mended their diplomatic relations last year.

Reportedly, Saudi Arabia's military spending has been growing at an average rate of 4.5 per cent since 1960. In 2024, the country's defense budget reached USD 75.8 billion, accounting for 3.1 per ...

And Saudi Arabia is the biggest consumer of U.S. military arms exports, receiving 19% of all U.S. exports. The United States has been supplying arms to Saudi Arabia for decades due to the Kingdom ...

Dublin, Feb. 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Aerospace & Defense in Saudi Arabia" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The Saudi Arabian aerospace & defense sector ...