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Yemen's Houthi movement said Tuesday that it fired a long-range ballistic missile toward the King Khaled International Airport north of the Saudi capital Riyadh, the state-run Saba news agency reported.
It's the second ballistic missile attack claimed by Houthi revolutionaries on the Saudi airport in less than three months.
In November last year, the Saudi air defenses reportedly shot down a ballistic missile fired by Houthis at the airport.
The missile attack triggered an all-out blockade by the Saudi-led military coalition on all Yemeni air, sea and land ports, with all Yemen's aid, fuel and food imports cut off.
In early December, the coalition eased the siege, allowing only some aid in through the northern ports, but UN aid agencies said it was not enough and asked the coalition to allow more food imports.
On Dec. 19, the Houthis said it fired a ballistic missile toward the Saudi royal palace in Riyadh. Saudi state media said the missile was intercepted without causing casualties.
Late last month, the U.S. accused Iran of providing missile technology for Yemen's Houthi revolutionaries. Iran and the Houthi movement denied the allegations.
In March 2015, Saudi Arabia led a military coalition of Arab forces, backed by the United States, to intervene in Yemen's conflict to back the resigned regime of fugitive former President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
The coalition has launched thousands of airstrikes on the Houthis, in attempts to roll back their gains and reinstate Hadi in the capital Sana’a.
The war has so far killed more than 12,000 Yemenis, mostly civilians, and pushed the Arab country to the brink of mass famine.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
