Alwaght- Yemeni army forces, backed by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have successfully targeted a Saudi Army base in the southern border region using a domestically-manufactured ballistic missile.
According to Yemeni official news agency, Saba, during the retaliatory attack, Saudi regime's Quwat al- Wageb military base was hit with short-range Badr-1 missile on Friday night. The report noted that the missile landed on the designated target with great precision.
The report added that the missile inflicted damage on the camp, killing and wounding an unspecified number of Saudi troopers.
However, the official Saudi Press Agency, citing a military official, claimed that the Saudi air defense forces had intercepted and destroyed the Yemeni missile over the skies of the region.
The development came two days after Yemeni forces fired a ballistic missile at Aramco storage tanks in Saudi Arabia's southwestern Jizan region. Shortly after the announcement, the kingdom’s state-run al-Ekhbariya television network claimed that the missile was downed by the Saudi air defenses over the skies above the region.
Yemen has been since March 2015 under a brutal aggression by Saudi-led coalition, in a bid to restore power to fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi.
Over 14,000 Yemenis have been killed and tens of thousands injured in Saudi-led strikes, with the vast majority of them being civilians, especially women and children.
However, the allied forces of the Yemeni army and popular committees established by Ansarullah revolutionaries have been heroically confronting the aggression with all means, inflicting huge losses upon Saudi-led forces.
The Saudi-led coalition – which also includes UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Sudan and Kuwait – has been also imposing a blockade on the impoverished country’s ports and airports as a part of the aggression.
