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Armed forces in Yemen claim to have successfully fired a domestically made ballistic missile at a Saudi Arabian military base in that country’s southwestern border region of Asir.
According to Yemen’s Arabic-language Al-Masirah television network, forces in the war-torn country have claimed a successful hit by a domestically manufactured short-range Badr-1 missile on the Al-Jarbah military base.
The report added that the projectile was fired in retaliation for the Saudi regime’s military campaign against the crisis-hit country and that it had hit the designated target with great precision, inflicting heavy damage to the camp, killing and wounding an unspecified number of Saudi soldiers.
The development comes a day after Yemeni forces reportedly fired a Qaher M-2 ballistic missile at another Saudi Arabian military base near the kingdom’s border city of Jizan, about 600 miles south of Riyadh.
Yemen has been engulfed in a violent conflict between the resigned regime, headed by former Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi and the Houthi movement in the country’s north, also known as Ansarullah.
Since March 2015, the Saudi-led coalition of mostly Persian Gulf countries has been carrying out airstrikes against the Houthis at Hadi’s request.
Millions of Yemenis remain in need of immediate humanitarian aid, according to the United Nations. The Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights announced in a statement on March 25 that the Saudi-led war had left 600,000 civilians dead or injured during the past three years.
Source: Sputnik, Edited by Website Team
