Yemeni combat drone strikes Saudi military base in Asir

Yemen's army and its allies have struck a Saudi military base in the kingdom's southwestern region of Asir with a combat drone, managing to capture dozens of mercenaries in the western coasts of Yemen following a retaliatory offensive.

Yemen's official Saba news agency, citing an unnamed military official, reported on Saturday that a Yemeni unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), type Qasef-1 (Striker-1), struck King Khalid air base in the city of Khamis Mushait earlier in the day.

The possible death toll and the extent of the damage inflicted upon Saudi troops and the military base in the retaliatory attack have not been released yet.

Back in February 2016, the Yemeni army announced that it had pounded the military base with two ballistic missiles.

Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported that the army air defense units, backed by fighters from the Ansarullah movement, also managed to shoot down a spy drone of the so-called coalition led by Saudi Arabia in Yemen’s northern province of Jawf.

Some 20 spy drones have been shot down since the Saudi war on the impoverished country began over three years ago.

In a separate development on Saturday, Yemeni troops, backed by popular committees, carried out an ambush on mercenaries supported by Saudi Arabia in Doreihami district in Yemen’s province of Hudaydah in western part of the peninsular country, killing or wounding a large number of them, Lebanese al-Manar television channel reported. It added that Yemeni forces also captured at least 35 mercenaries in the successful ambush.

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