Yemeni drones attack military target in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh

Yemeni army and its allied fighters from Popular Committees have for the first time used a squadron of domestically-manufactured Sammad-3 (Invincible-3) combat drones to strike an “important military target” in Saudi Arabia’s capital city of Riyadh.

The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, said on Monday afternoon that the drones struck the designated target with great precision, reiterating that the strikes were in response to the continued Saudi-led alliance’s crimes and aggression against Yemen, and its blockade of the conflict-ridden Arab country.

The development came only a day after Yemeni army forces and their allies launched a barrage of Badr-1 short-range ballistic missiles at strategic sites inside Jizan Regional Airport, also known as King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Airport.

The Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported that the projectiles targeted the hangars of Saudi warplanes and Apache attack helicopters besides some military sites at the airport.

The Saudi coalition fighting in Yemen dismissed the report as “fake and deceptive.” There was no immediate reaction from authorities in Saudi Arabia.

PressTV-Yemen launches 'biggest' retaliatory attack on Saudi Arabia

The Yemeni army says its units have launched the biggest retaliatory attack on Saudi positions, killing and injuring dozens.

The retaliatory attack came after Yemeni forces launched an offensive against the positions of Saudi troopers and Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal to Yemen's former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in the kingdom’s southwestern region of Najran.

Saree said Yemeni soldiers and allied fighters launched a newly-developed Nakal (Retribution) missile at the strongholds of Saudi soldiers and their mercenaries in al-Sadis area of the region, located 844 kilometers (524 miles) south of Riyadh, on Sunday afternoon, leaving dozens of them dead or injured, al-Masirah reported.

PressTV-Yemen army targets Saudi troops, mercs with new missile

Dozens of Saudi troops and their mercenaries have been killed and injured in a Yemeni missile strike against the kingdom’s southern region of Najran.

On Sunday, Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah fighters said they had targeted an airport and an airbase in southwestern Saudi Arabia with drone attacks.

The movement announced the retaliatory strikes on Sunday through a spokesman, Yemen’s al-Masirah television network reported.

The spokesman said the drone attacks targeted the Abha Airport and the King Khalid Airbase in Saudi Arabia’s Asir region.

The strike against the airport hit its control tower, said the spokesman, who added that the operation against the airbase used the movement’s indigenously-made Qasef-2K drones.

PressTV-Yemen conducts strikes on Saudi Arabian airport, airbase

Yemen’s popular defense movement Houthi Ansarullah says it has targeted an airport and an airbase in southwestern Saudi Arabia with drone attacks.

Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a devastating campaign against Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back to power and crushing the Ansarullah movement.

The US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the war has claimed more than 91,000 over the past four and a half years

The war has also taken a heavy toll on the country’s infrastructure, destroying hospitals, schools, and factories. The UN says over 24 million Yemenis are in dire need of humanitarian aid, including 10 million suffering from extreme levels of hunger.

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