Yemeni Drones Target Saudi Airports, Air Base
SANA’A (Dispatches) - Yemen’s Army said on Sunday that it launched two bomb-laden drones toward King Khaled Airbase in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern city of Khamis Mushait in retaliation against the Saudi attacks on the impoverished country, the al-Masirah TV reported.
"The attack hit aircraft hangars accurately,” the TV quoted a statement from the Yemeni Military spokesman Yahya Sarea as saying.
"The attack was in response to the Saudi-led coalition airstrikes and blockade on the Yemeni people,” Sarea said.
Yemeni fighters carry out retaliatory drone attacks in response to Riyadh’s deadly aggression on their impoverished country.
Tthe Yemeni army’s domestically-developed Qasef-2K (Striker-2K) combat drones targeted airports in Saudi Arabia’s Jizan and Abha regions as well as an air base near the city of Khamis Mushait, Saree said in a statement on Saturday as reported by al-Massirah.
He stressed that such retaliatory attacks would continue as long as the kingdom kept its military aggression, siege and airstrikes against the war-torn Arab country.
Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministry of Yemen’s National Salvation Government said the Saudi-led coalition are engaged in a campaign against the country as well as the allied militiamen loyal to former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur are closely working with al-Qaeda and the Daesh terrorists.
The ministry, in two separate identical letters addressed to the United Nations and the UN Security Council, elaborated on clean-up operations carried out by Yemeni armed forces and fighters from the Popular Committees against al-Qaeda and Daesh terror cells in the central province of Bayda.
The letters emphasized that there were foreign nationals, mostly Saudi citizens, among the militant commanders and combatants slain in the operations.
Large amounts of weapons, bombs and explosive belts were also seized.
The foreign ministry highlighted that the Saudi-led alliance has been providing al-Qaeda and Daesh with air cover as of ‘March 26, 2015,’ in addition to financial, military and logistical support, medical care, and facilitation of their free movement.
Documents have also been discovered proving a number of al-Qaeda and Daesh operatives were treated in hospitals in Saudi Arabia and the central Yemeni province of Ma’rib.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a war on Yemen in March 2015 in an attempt to subdue a popular uprising that had overthrown a regime friendly to Riyadh.
The U.S.-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the war has claimed more than 100,000 lives over the past five years.
"The attack hit aircraft hangars accurately,” the TV quoted a statement from the Yemeni Military spokesman Yahya Sarea as saying.
"The attack was in response to the Saudi-led coalition airstrikes and blockade on the Yemeni people,” Sarea said.
Yemeni fighters carry out retaliatory drone attacks in response to Riyadh’s deadly aggression on their impoverished country.
Tthe Yemeni army’s domestically-developed Qasef-2K (Striker-2K) combat drones targeted airports in Saudi Arabia’s Jizan and Abha regions as well as an air base near the city of Khamis Mushait, Saree said in a statement on Saturday as reported by al-Massirah.
He stressed that such retaliatory attacks would continue as long as the kingdom kept its military aggression, siege and airstrikes against the war-torn Arab country.
Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministry of Yemen’s National Salvation Government said the Saudi-led coalition are engaged in a campaign against the country as well as the allied militiamen loyal to former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur are closely working with al-Qaeda and the Daesh terrorists.
The ministry, in two separate identical letters addressed to the United Nations and the UN Security Council, elaborated on clean-up operations carried out by Yemeni armed forces and fighters from the Popular Committees against al-Qaeda and Daesh terror cells in the central province of Bayda.
The letters emphasized that there were foreign nationals, mostly Saudi citizens, among the militant commanders and combatants slain in the operations.
Large amounts of weapons, bombs and explosive belts were also seized.
The foreign ministry highlighted that the Saudi-led alliance has been providing al-Qaeda and Daesh with air cover as of ‘March 26, 2015,’ in addition to financial, military and logistical support, medical care, and facilitation of their free movement.
Documents have also been discovered proving a number of al-Qaeda and Daesh operatives were treated in hospitals in Saudi Arabia and the central Yemeni province of Ma’rib.
Saudi Arabia and a number of its regional allies launched a war on Yemen in March 2015 in an attempt to subdue a popular uprising that had overthrown a regime friendly to Riyadh.
The U.S.-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a nonprofit conflict-research organization, estimates that the war has claimed more than 100,000 lives over the past five years.