Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that two of its soldiers fighting with the Arab coalition in Yemen have been taken hostages by the Ansarullah resistance movement.

Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that two of its soldiers fighting with the Arab coalition in Yemen have been taken hostages by the Ansarullah resistance movement.

“Two Saudi soldiers fighting with the Arab coalition in Yemen have been detained by Houthi rebels. They are detainees and not hostages,” coalition spokesman Ahmed Assiri said, adding “They lost their way inside Yemeni territory.”

Three other Saudi soldiers are missing, Assiri said.

The spokesman did not say when or where inside Yemen the incident took place.

The Saudi acknowledgment came after military media in Yemen broadcast a video footage of one of the Saudi soldiers who were arrested by the Yemeni army and people’s committees during the confrontations on the border front with Saudi Arabia.

The prisoner, named Ibrahim Arraj Mohammed Hakami of the Fourth Battalion, First Brigade, based in Jizan, called upon the Saudi army and the Defense Ministry to stop the war “which is of no benefit but the destruction and killing of our brothers in Yemen.”

Later on, the Yemeni state-run TV channel Al-Masira broadcast an exclusive footage showing the Yemeni army and the Popular Committees forces storming the Saudi military posts of Al-Raboueiya in Assir region.

The video scenes document detaining more Saudi hostages, as one of them appears wounded and receiving treatment by the Yemeni troops.

On March 26, Saudi Arabia began its aggression against Yemen – without a UN mandate – in a bid to restore power to the country's fugitive former president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh. The Saudi-US war on Yemen has so far left more than 5000 dead and thousands of others wounded.