Yemeni forces intercept, shoot down Saudi spy drone in Najran

Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have intercepted and targeted an unmanned aerial vehicle belonging to the Saudi Arabia as it was flying over an area in the border region of Najran.

Spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces Brigadier General Yahya Saree said Yemeni air defense forces and their allies shot down the spy drone as it was on a reconnaissance mission over the region, situated 844 km south of the capital Riyadh, with a surface-to-air missile on Thursday.

He stressed that the specifications of the aircraft and details of the operation will be published later.

Moreover, forces of the Saudi-led military coalition and their mercenaries have violated 123 times during the past 24 hours a ceasefire agreement between warring sides for the western coastal province of Hudaydah.

An unnamed source in Yemen’s Liaison and Coordination Officers Operations Room said the violations included 16 reconnaissance flights over Kilo 16, al-Fazeh, Jabaliya and Durayhimi districts, 14 counts of artillery shelling and 86 shooting incidents.

Delegates from the Ansarullah movement and representatives supporting the fugitive Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi attended the peace negotiations in Rimbo on the outskirts of Stockholm in December 2018. The talks resulted in the announcement of a breakthrough agreement.

The document included three provisions: a ceasefire along the Hudaydah front and the redeployment of armed forces out of the city and its port; an agreement on prisoner exchange; and a statement of understanding on the southern Yemeni city of Ta’izz.

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