Alwaght- Yemeni resistance forces have downed a Saudi spy drone on a reconnaissance mission in Yemen’s western coastal province of Hudaydah.
Arabic-language al-Masirah television network, citing an unnamed official from Yemen's air defense unit, reported that the Saudi spy drone was shot down as it was flying in the skies over al-Fazah area south of the provincial capital city of Hudaydah, located 150 kilometers southwest of the capital Sana'a, on Wednesday evening.
The drone was shot by Yemeni armed forces, supported by allied fighters from Ansarullah resistance movement,
Earlier in the day, scores of Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal to Yemen's former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi lost their lives and sustained injuries when Yemeni army forces and allied fighters from Popular Committees struck their positions in the Sadah area of al-Maslub district in Yemen’s northern province of al-Jawf.
Meanwhile, a Yemeni military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Yemeni forces and their allies had fired a domestically-manufactured ballistic missile at a military base in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern border region of Najran in retaliation for the Saudi regime’s military campaign against their crisis-ridden homeland.
Earlier in the day, scores of Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal to Yemen's former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi lost their lives and sustained injuries when Yemeni army forces and allied fighters from Popular Committees struck their positions in the Sadah area of al-Maslub district in Yemen’s northern province of al-Jawf.
Meanwhile, a Yemeni military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Yemeni forces and their allies had fired a domestically-manufactured ballistic missile at a military base in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern border region of Najran in retaliation for the Saudi regime’s military campaign against their crisis-ridden homeland.
The source said the short-range Badr-1 missile struck a newly-built base in the western sector of the region, located 844 kilometers (524 miles) south of the capital Riyadh, on Wednesday morning.
The retaliatory attacks came a day after Yemeni forces targeted Dubai International Airport in a drone strike.
Nearly 15,000 Yemenis, mostly women, children and the elderly, have been killed since March 2015 when the Saudi regime launched a brutal military campaign against the impoverished state. Yemeni forces have been conducting retaliatory strikes against Saudi Arabia and the UAE and their allies.
The United Nations has called the war in Yemen the world's worst humanitarian disaster.
More than 20 million Yemenis need aid, millions are on the brink of famine, and hundreds of thousands have been infected with diseases, mostly cholera.
