On Sunday, Saudi Arabia said that it has regained control of a mountainous region from Yemeni rebels who it said entered the kingdom’s borders.

Prince Khalid bin Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz, the assistant defense minister, told the state-run Saudi Press Agency, “The Saudi region of Jabal Dokhan is back under full and complete Saudi control. Our directive…was to fix and take control of the situation only within our borders and not to interfere inside Yemen’s borders.”

The government said on Friday that it had carried out airstrikes earlier in the week against the rebels

The airstrikes came after an armed group, possibly Houthi rebels, infiltrated Saudi territory from Yemen on Tuesday and fired on border guards. Abdul-Aziz said that the clashes killed three members of the Saudi security forces and wounded 15.

Yemen’s state-run Saba news agency reported that the Yemeni government has denied the Houthi rebels’ claim that the airstrikes occurred within Yemen’s territory.

(article and photo source: CNN)