Almotamar.net, Saba - Twelve Somalis made on Tuesday court appearances in Yemen over piracy charges. The Specialized Penal Court started the first hearing in their trial, accusing them of hijacking a Yemeni oil tanker in April, fighting the authorities while trying to recover the tanker, and killing one of the crew members.
Another crew member went missing in the release operation.
On April 27, Yemen's navy released an oil tanker hijacked earlier by Somali pirates in the pirate-plagued Gulf of Aden, naval sources said.
A soldier and five of the crew onboard the tanker were injured, the sources said.
Early in the day, naval forces carried out a release operation which resulted in recovering the tanker, releasing the crew and the arrest of 11 pirates.
Two pirates were killed and one injured as marine troops clashed with pirates to retake over the tanker, Qana, sources at the Defense Ministry said.
The tanker was returning to the southern port city of Aden from Mukalla province where it had unloaded its cargo when pirates took it.
Earlier, two pirates were killed, one injured and four arrested as Yemeni naval forces freed three ships which Somali pirates hijacked off Aden.
Troops used helicopters to hunt pirates and retake over ships.
The hijacking was the latest in a series of recent pirate attacks in the Indian Ocean.
Many pirates have been captured as NATO forces patrolling the Gulf of Aden freed seized ships and prevented attempted attacks against others.
The United Arab Emirates acknowledged on Tuesday that two of its pilots were killed when their military aggression plane crashed over Jawf province, a military official said
The official added that the aggressive crashed plane was an apache that was
Artillery of the army and popular shelled a gathering of Saudi-paid mercenaries in al-Moqadra area in Serwah district of Marib province, a military official said on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, dozens of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed and others injured in Wadi al-Theek in the district, the official added.
The army and popular forces carried out on Monday unique military operations in Taiz province.
A military official said that a number of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed at the hands of the army and popular forces in al-Jazami Hill in al-Kadaha area in al-Ma'afer district.
A Saudi aggression fighter jet targeted a citizen's car driving in Fara area of Kutaf district in Saada province overnight, killing the driver and injuring his friend, a security official said on Monday.
The army artillery and popular committees launched a fierce attack on Saudi-paid mercenaries' sites in Jawf province, a military official said on Monday.
The attack destroyed a military vehicle belonging to the mercenaries and killed all on board in Sabran area in khab and shaaf district.
Scores of Saudi enemy soldiers were killed and injured on Sunday when the army and popular forces repelled a Saudi military attempt to sneak into Shurfah site in the border province of Najran, a military official said.
The operation was accomplished successfully against the Saudi
The army and popular committees have killed a total of 18 Saudi-paid mercenaries in sniper operations over the past hours in the central province of Marib, a military official said on Sunday.
Ten mercenaries were killed in Nehm district and eight others were killed in Serwah district, said the official.
Saudi aggression warplanes have launched more than 49 airstrikes over the past hours on several residential areas across Yemen, a security official said on Sunday.
The airstrikes targeted the areas of Malahiz and Husama in Dhahir district, and areas Thuban, Masahif and Sdad in Bakim district of northern Saada province.