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The Yemeni army launched a fresh drone attack on Saudi Arabia’s King Khaled Airbase in the kingdom’s southwestern province of Asir early Monday.
A number of Qasif-2K [Striker-2K] drones conducted airstrikes against emplacements of fighter jets in the base, the spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces Brigadier General Yehya Saree said in a statement.
“The continued targeting of King Khalid Air Base by the armed forces aims to remove it from service […] since it is the one of the most important bases used by the Saudi regime as a starting point for its hostile operations against our great Yemeni people,” Saree confirmed.
Located in the vicinity of Khamis Mushait city, the airbase belongs to the Royal Saudi Air Force [RSAF].
Yemeni forces regularly target positions inside Saudi Arabia in retaliation for the Saudi-led war on Yemen, which began in March 2015 in an attempt to reinstall a former regime and eliminate the Ansarullah revolutionary movement.
According to estimates by the US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project [ACLED], the Saudi-led war claimed the lives of more than 60,000 Yemenis since January 2016.
Source: Yemenwatch, Edited by Website Team
