December 2015 Taiz missile attack

December 2015 Taiz missile attack
Part of Yemeni Civil War (2015–present) and the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen
Date 14 December 2015 Location Taiz Governorate, Yemen Result Houthi tactical victory Heavy casualties on coalition troops.
Belligerents
Yemen (Revolutionary Committee) Houthis	Coalition  Saudi Arabia  United Arab Emirates  Morocco  Sudan Academi PMCs Yemeni Army (pro-Hadi)
Commanders and leaders
Unknown Houthi Commander	Colonel Abdullah al-Sahian †[1] (Head of Saudi Arabian Special Forces in Taiz area)[2] Colonel Sultan Mohammed Ali al-Kitbi †[1]
Casualties and losses
None	23 Soldiers killed 7 Soldiers killed 9 Soldiers killed 16 or 18 Soldiers killed[3] 42 Academi PMCs (Houthi claim)

The December 2015 Taiz missile attack was a strike carried out by the pro-Saleh Yemeni Army and Houthi militants with a Tochka ballistic missile against a military camp that was being used by troops of the Saudi-led coalition, south-west of the city of Taiz. The strike inflicted numerous casualties on the coalition forces,^[1] Reports said that there were 150 casualties in the camp, including 23 Saudi, 16-18 Sudanese, 9 Moroccan, and 7 Emirati servicemen reportedly killed.^[3] Large amounts of military material were destroyed, including vehicles and air-defense systems. In addition, Houthi militants claimed to have killed at least 42 mercenaries of the Blackwater private military company in the missile strike, however this is a dubious claim because Blackwater has not operated under that name since 2009, and is now a subsidiary of a larger security company.^[3]

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