Yemen Launches Drone Strike on Saudi Air Base
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A military spokesman said the Yemeni forces have launched drone attacks on an air base in southern Saudi Arabia.
Yemen’s army spokesman, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, announced on Thursday night that his country’s military force have launched a retaliatory drone attack on King Khalid Airbase in Saudi Arabia’s southern town of Khamis Mushait, al-Masirah TV reported.
The aerial strike has been carried out with two Qasef-2K (Striker-2K) combat drones, the general noted, adding that the Saudi targets have been hit accurately in the attack.
Meanwhile, the Saudi-led military coalition claimed it had intercepted two bomb-laden drones in Saudi Arabia’s airspace.
Saudi Arabia and its regional allies, chiefly the United Arab Emirates (UAE), launched a war against Yemen in March 2015 to restore the government of fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who resigned in 2014 and then flee to Riyadh.
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the war has killed almost a quarter of a million Yemenis, caused outbreaks of disease, turned Yemen into the world’s worst humanitarian crisis and brought the poor Arab country to the verge of famine.