Yemeni Army, Committees Fire Ballistic Missile on Saudi Base in Retaliation for ’KSA Crimes’
Local Editor
Yemen’s Ansarullah revolutionary forces fired a ballistic missile on Thursday in retaliation for attacks by a Saudi-led coalition against Yemen.
Al-Masirah television reported that a Scud, a powerful Cold War-era weapon, had been fired at a military base near the city of Khamees Mushait in Saudi Arabia’s southwest.
The area is home to the King Khaled air base, the largest air force base in southern Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, but there are no oil facilities in the vicinity.
The television station said that the target was hit.
"The army and people’s committees at dawn today fired a ballistic missile in response to the continuation of the Saudi aggression in the commission of war crimes against the Yemeni people", the source said.
The Scud had been launched at Saudi Arabia by Yemeni forces several times during the nearly seven months of Saudi aggression.
On March 26, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies backed by the United States began to launch a military aggression against Yemen by launching air strikes against the country in an attempt to restore power to the fugitive former Yemeni President, Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.
The airstrikes have not been authorized by the UN.
As a result, the Yemeni army backed by popular committees and tribal fighters has been responding to the aggression by targeting several Saudi border military posts and cleansing several areas across the country from Hadi and al-Qaeda-linked militias.
