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.

According to Press TV, 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.

The retaliatory attack came shortly 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.

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