Yemeni army targets Saudi airport, airbase in ‘accurate’ drone strike

The Yemeni army has launched armed drones to attack Saudi Arabia’s Abha Airport as well as King Khalid Airbase in the southern town of Khamis Mushait in retaliation for Riyadh’s continuation of a six-year-long war on Yemen, said a spokesman.

In a tweet on Monday morning, Yemeni Army Spokesman Yahya Sare'e wrote that the country’s air force managed to carry out “accurate” attacks with Qasef-2K (Striker-2K) combat drones against the two positions.

“It is part of our natural and legitimate right to respond to the crimes of the [war coalition] and its continuing blockade,” Sare'e added.

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 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 martyred almost 250,000 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.

Further advancing in Ma’rib Province in recent days, forces of the Yemeni army and allied Popular Committees on Sunday killed scores of Saudi-backed forces in Tai'zz after targeting a camp of Saudi mercenaries in a missile attack.

The Yemeni forces also killed and injured tens of Saudi forces in Saudi Arabia’s southern city of Najran in clashes between the two sides on Sunday, according to the official website of the Ansarullah Movement.

The Yemeni military's media released videos showing confrontation with the Saudi army mercenaries, which forced them to retreat and flee after they had suffered great losses in lives and equipment.

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