Saudi Arabia says that three of its soldiers have been killed and more than a dozen wounded in operations to regain control of a mountainous area inside its territory seized earlier in the week by Yemeni rebels.

“The situation is reassuring,” Prince Khaled bin Sultan, assistant minister of defence and aviation was quoted as saying in the Saudi Press Agency on Saturday.”All what they previously controlled in Mount Dokhan has been completely controlled, even if there are some infiltrations in some posts.’’