Local Editor
The Yemeni army backed by popular committees loyal to the Ansarullah movement has fired a ballistic missile at a Saudi military base in retaliation to Riyadh’s relentless attacks on the impoverished Arab nation.
The missile hit the Saudi airbase in the kingdom’s southern city of Najran on Saturday.
There were no immediate reports about casualties and the extent of the damage.
This is the third Yemeni missile attack on Saudi Arabia over the past days.
At least three Saudi troopers were killed on Tuesday in a retaliatory rocket attack launched by Yemeni forces on a military base in the in the kingdom’s southern province of Jizan.
Saudi Arabia’s military campaign against Yemen was launched on March 26, 2015 in a bid to reinstate Hadi, a staunch ally of Riyadh, and defeat the Houthi Ansarullah movement.
Meanwhile, Saudi warplanes on Saturday carried out fresh airstrikes in areas in Yemen’s Hajjah and Taiz provinces with no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
More than 10,000 people have been killed and at least 16,000 others sustained injuries since the onset of the Saudi aggression against its southern neighbor.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
