Yemeni missile ‘targets Saudi military base’

Yemeni forces have targeted a military camp in Saudi Arabia’s extreme southwest in a missile attack.

The missile successfully struck the al-Montazah military base in the Zahran district of Saudi Arabia’s Asir region, which borders Yemen, on Monday, Yemen’s al-Masirah TV reported.

There were no reports of possible casualties or damage.

The Yemeni forces have been staging recurrent retaliatory attacks against Saudi Arabia, which has been waging a war on the country since March 2015. The war, which has killed more than 10,000 in Yemen, was launched in an unsuccessful attempt to restore power to Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, a Saudi ally who has resigned as Yemen’s president but seeks to forcefully return to power.

Back in August, Yemen’s Khabar news agency reported that Saudi Arabia had launched a forced evacuation of locals in its southwestern Jizan region as Yemeni forces advanced into the Saudi territory in other retaliatory raids.

Later in the month, Yemeni forces fired ballistic missiles at facilities belonging to the Saudi state oil giant Aramco in Jizan, causing considerable damage to the company’s properties. Also in August, it was reported that Yemeni army snipers had killed three Saudi troops inside Saudi Arabia as part of retaliatory operations.

In a separate development, Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi, the leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement, which has been defending the country against the Saudi invasion, has said that Saudi Arabia and the United States have an eye on the country’s eastern parts.

He added that some “to whom the deaths of Yemeni women and children is unimportant” were, meanwhile, “encouraging Saudi Arabia to destroy Yemen by eulogizing the kingdom.”

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