Houthi Drones Attack Military Target in Riyadh
SANAA (Dispatches) -- Yemen's Houthi movement said on Monday it had attacked a "military target" in the Saudi capital Riyadh with armed drones, a day after it fired ballistic missiles at an airport.
According to a spokesperson for the Houthis, who have been battling more than four years of a devastating military campaign led by Saudi Arabia, the attack was carried out with armed drone.
The spokesman for Yemeni armed forces Brigadier General Yahya Saree said a squadron of domestically-manufactured Sammad-3 (Invincible-3) combat drones were used to strike an "important military target” in the Saudi capital.
The aircraft struck their designated target with great precision, he said, reiterating that the strikes were in response to the continued Saudi-led alliance’s crimes and aggression against Yemen, and its blockade of the Arab country.
Monday's incident is the latest in a spate of cross-border missile and drone attacks targeting Saudi air bases and other facilities in recent months.
On Sunday, the Houthis and their allies in the Yemeni army fired 10 Badr-1 ballistic missiles at Jizan airport in Saudi Arabia.
They said the missiles had killed dozens, but Saudi Arabia claimed that it had intercepted and destroyed six missiles.
Last week, a drone attack caused a massive fire in a remote Saudi oil and gas field.
The attacks have come in response to Saudi air raids in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa and other areas. Most urban centers in Yemen are administered by a coalition of several Yemeni groups, led by Houthis.
The Yemen war escalated in March 2015 when a Saudi-UAE-led coalition launched a ferocious air campaign against the country in a bid to restore former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi who resigned and fled to Riyadh.
The Yemeni army and its Houthi allies say they manufacture their own weapons and are fighting a corrupt system.
Since the start of the conflict, tens of thousands of civilians and combatants have been killed and as many as 85,000 children may have starved to death in what the United Nations has described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
According to a spokesperson for the Houthis, who have been battling more than four years of a devastating military campaign led by Saudi Arabia, the attack was carried out with armed drone.
The spokesman for Yemeni armed forces Brigadier General Yahya Saree said a squadron of domestically-manufactured Sammad-3 (Invincible-3) combat drones were used to strike an "important military target” in the Saudi capital.
The aircraft struck their designated target with great precision, he said, reiterating that the strikes were in response to the continued Saudi-led alliance’s crimes and aggression against Yemen, and its blockade of the Arab country.
Monday's incident is the latest in a spate of cross-border missile and drone attacks targeting Saudi air bases and other facilities in recent months.
On Sunday, the Houthis and their allies in the Yemeni army fired 10 Badr-1 ballistic missiles at Jizan airport in Saudi Arabia.
They said the missiles had killed dozens, but Saudi Arabia claimed that it had intercepted and destroyed six missiles.
Last week, a drone attack caused a massive fire in a remote Saudi oil and gas field.
The attacks have come in response to Saudi air raids in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa and other areas. Most urban centers in Yemen are administered by a coalition of several Yemeni groups, led by Houthis.
The Yemen war escalated in March 2015 when a Saudi-UAE-led coalition launched a ferocious air campaign against the country in a bid to restore former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi who resigned and fled to Riyadh.
The Yemeni army and its Houthi allies say they manufacture their own weapons and are fighting a corrupt system.
Since the start of the conflict, tens of thousands of civilians and combatants have been killed and as many as 85,000 children may have starved to death in what the United Nations has described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.