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The Yemeni army disclosed on Wednesday that it had fired rocket and drone strikes at Saudi targets including Aramco oil facilities.
Few details were given of the precise nature and timing of the attacks, and there was no immediate confirmation from the Saudi authorities of any strikes.
The spokesman for the army Yahya Saree said more than 15 “operations” had been carried out in the past week inside Saudi Arabia in retaliation for an escalation in air strikes.
Saudi Aramco facilities in Jizan on the Red Sea were targeted, along with other targets near the border with Yemen, including Abha and Jizan airports and Khamis Mushait military base, “with a large number of rockets and drones”, he said in a separate statement.
State oil giant Aramco declined to comment on the report.
The Yemeni army backed by the popular committees and the Houthi Ansarullah movement have been battling a Saudi-led military coalition for nearly five years.
Yemen has been mired in almost five years of conflict since the Houthi movement ousted the resigned regime of former President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi from the capital in late 2014. The Saudi-led military coalition intervened in 2015 to try to forcefully restore him.
The United Nations has been trying to re-launch political negotiations to end the war and, separately, Riyadh has been holding informal talks with the Houthis since late September about de-escalation.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
