Local Editor

The Yemeni army, joined by Popular Committees, launched 40 rockets at a military base in Saudi Arabia’s Dhahran Asir region in a retaliatory attack against the US-led Saudi aggression on Tuesday.

The Yemeni troops launched as many as 40 missiles and artillery shells against al-Amish military camp and left scores of Saudi troops killed and injured, according to reports. 

There has been no immediate report on the number of casualties or the extent of the damage caused in the retaliatory attack.

Yemeni tribal forces, backed by army units and Ansarullah fighters, have launched a series of new attacks on the Saudi border cities in retaliation for the ongoing US-led Saudi aggression against Yemen.

Saudi Arabia has been carrying out deadly airstrikes in Yemen since March.

The Houthi revolutionaries have been responding to the US-led Saudi aggression in retaliation for the attacks on their country.

Saudi Arabia began its US-led military aggression on Yemen on March 26 -- without a UN mandate -- in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement, and to restore power to Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is a close ally of Saudi Arabia.