Alwaght- Yemeni forces fired a retaliatory ballistic missile toward the southern Saudi province of Najran on Saturday, the Yemen’s al-Masirah TV reported.
The TV channel said the short-range missile targeted a military base. There were no reports of casualties or damage.
Yemeni forces regularly target Saudi military sites, including in the capital Riyadh, in retaliation of the ongoing Saudi-led aggression on the country.
The latest operation comes days after Yemen Air Defense Forces (YADF) introduced a domestically developed surface-to-air missile system.
According to the country’s official Saba News Agency, the new missile system shot down a Saudi-led coalition’s UK-supplied Tornado military aircraft while it was flying over Saada province and in the meantime, targeted another enemy’s US-supplied F-15 plane over the capital Sana’a..
Yemen’s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by the coalition for almost three years but Riyadh has reached none of its objectives in Yemen so far.
Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have been carrying out deadly airstrikes against the Ansarullah movement in an attempt to restore power to fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
Nearly 14,000 Yemenis, mostly women, children and the elderly, have been killed since the onset of Saudi Arabia’s military campaign against Yemen. Much of the Arabian Peninsula country's infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and factories, has been reduced to rubble due to the war. The Saudi-led war has also triggered a deadly cholera epidemic and famine across Yemen.
