Local Editor

The Yemeni army backed by the Popular Committees fired a ballistic missile toward southern Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, a day after four Saudi soldiers were killed on the border with the impoverished country.

"The Yemeni army fired a Scud ballistic missile toward Jizan," Al Maseera TV reported on its twitter page.

A Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States has been carrying out a military aggression on Yemen by launching airstrikes against the country since March. The airstrikes have not been authorized by the United Nations [UN]. 

The US-led Saudi aggression began in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former Yemeni President, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.

As a result, the Yemeni army backed by popular committees and tribal fighters has been responding to the aggression by targeting several Saudi border military posts and cleansing several areas across the country from Hadi and al-Qaeda-linked militias.

Earlier on Tuesday, Saudi Arabia said that three of its soldiers were killed by artillery fire from Yemen, and another died when his patrol vehicle crashed along the border.

A Saudi border post in Saudi Arabia’s southern region of Jizan came under shell and rocket fire from Yemeni territory on Monday.

Another soldier operating along the border with Yemen was killed in another incident, the official SPA news agency said.

Also, earlier on Sunday, Saudi Arabia said that rocket fire had killed a general, the highest-ranking officer to die in cross-border attacks since a Saudi-led coalition began the brutal military aggression on Yemen.