DUBAI, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- The General Command of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Armed Forces in Abu Dhabi said on Monday that two of its soldiers had been killed in Yemen, UAE state news agency WAM reported.
The two servicemen were Sergeant Nasser Gharib Al-Mazrouei and Second-Lieutenant Pilot Sultan Mohamed Ali Al-Naqbi. Mazrouei died of severe injuries while carrying out his duties with the Saudi-led Arab coalition in Yemen, and Naqbi was killed as his plane crashed after suffering "a technical failure."
The General Command of the UAE Armed Forces offered his condolences to the families of the two soldiers.
Since March 2015, a Saud-led international military coalition has been fighting the Houthi rebels in the Arab peninsula state of Yemen. The UAE is among the nine Arab states to support Yemen's internationally recognized government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi in the fight against Houthis.
