Jabal al-Dukhan (

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C ...

:جبل دخان) ( ar, "smoke mountain") is a mountain located in Saudi territory southwest of the village of

Al Khubah Al Khubah ( ar, الخوبة) is a village in Jizan Province, in south-western Saudi Arabia.National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. GeoNames database entry.search Accessed 13 May 2011. See also * List of cities and towns in Saudi Arabia * ...

Jizan Province Jizan Region also spelled Jazan ( ar, جيزان, Jizan) is the second smallest (after Al Bahah) region of Saudi Arabia. It stretches along the southern Red Sea coast, just north of Yemen. It covers an area of 11,671 km2 and has a populat ...

, which borders the Mount Smoke path of the

Saudi Arabia–Yemen border The Saudi Arabia–Yemen border is 1,307 km (812 mi) in length and runs from the Red Sea coast in the west to the tripoint with Oman in the east. Description The border starts in the west on the Red Sea coast just north of Midi. An irregula ...

between from the south-east and the length of the mountain and his 7x7 kilometers and reaches an elevation of the mountain from the sea about 500 meters from the sea and rises out of place 250 meters. In 2009 it was the location of fighting between

Saudi forces The Saudi Arabian Armed Forces (SAAF) ( ar, القُوَّات المُسَلَّحَة العَرَبِيَّة السُّعُودِيَّة, Al-Quwwat al-Musallahah al-Malakiyah as-Su’ūdiyah), also known as the Royal Saudi Armed Forces, ar ...

and the

Houthi The Houthi movement (; ar, ٱلْحُوثِيُّون ''al-Ḥūthīyūn'' ), officially called Ansar Allah (' ''Partisans of God'' or ''Supporters of God'') and colloquially simply Houthis, is an Islamist political and armed movement that ...

s during

Operation Scorched Earth Operation Scorched Earth (Arabic language, Arabic: عملية الأرض المحروقة) was the code-name of a Military of Yemen, Yemeni military offensive in the Saada Governorate that began in August 2009. It marked the fifth wave of vio ...

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Jizan Province

Dukhan Dukhan ( ar, دخان) is a city in the western municipality of Al-Shahaniya in the State of Qatar. It is approximately west of the capital, Doha. Dukhan is administrated by Qatar's state oil agency QatarEnergy and is the site of the first oil ...

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