Dubai, United Arab Emirates: A bomb-laden drone targeted an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, wounding eight people and damaging a civilian aircraft, Saudi state television reported, amid a war in neighboring Yemen over the kingdom. latest attack.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, the second such strike. Abha Airport in the last 24 hours. The first attack, blamed on Yemen’s Iran-backed Shia Houthi rebels, scattered shrapnel across the tarmac but caused no casualties.
The Saudi-led military coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen did not elaborate on the attack or provide details about those involved, beyond saying that its forces had “intercepted” the explosive drones.
The attack came just days after missiles and drones shot down a major military base in Yemen’s south, killing at least 30 Saudi-backed militants. Yemeni soldiers and marking one of the deadliest attacks in the country’s years of civil war. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, which identified Iranian-backed rebels.
Since 2015, Yemen’s Houthi rebels battling a Saudi-led military coalition have targeted military installations within Saudi Arabia and international airports along with critical oil infrastructure.
attacks that often occur near southern cities aura and Jizan, seldom caused substantial damage, but dozens have been injured, at least one person has died and global oil markets have been rocked. Within Yemen, the Saudi-led bombing campaign has drawn international criticism for killing civilians, killing non-military targets such as hospitals and wedding parties, and destroying infrastructure in the Arab world’s poorest nation.
The Yemen war has settled into a bloody standoff, even as international diplomatic efforts to stop the fighting intensify. The Houthis have in recent months intensified their pressure to regain control of the oil-rich government stronghold Marib, and increased their cross-border attacks on the kingdom.
Yemen’s war began in 2014, when rebels captured the capital Sanaa and much of the country’s north. The Saudi-led military coalition intervened months later to oust the Houthis and restore the internationally recognized government.
The war has killed nearly 130,000 people and led to the world’s worst humanitarian disaster.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, the second such strike. Abha Airport in the last 24 hours. The first attack, blamed on Yemen’s Iran-backed Shia Houthi rebels, scattered shrapnel across the tarmac but caused no casualties.
The Saudi-led military coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen did not elaborate on the attack or provide details about those involved, beyond saying that its forces had “intercepted” the explosive drones.
The attack came just days after missiles and drones shot down a major military base in Yemen’s south, killing at least 30 Saudi-backed militants. Yemeni soldiers and marking one of the deadliest attacks in the country’s years of civil war. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, which identified Iranian-backed rebels.
Since 2015, Yemen’s Houthi rebels battling a Saudi-led military coalition have targeted military installations within Saudi Arabia and international airports along with critical oil infrastructure.
attacks that often occur near southern cities aura and Jizan, seldom caused substantial damage, but dozens have been injured, at least one person has died and global oil markets have been rocked. Within Yemen, the Saudi-led bombing campaign has drawn international criticism for killing civilians, killing non-military targets such as hospitals and wedding parties, and destroying infrastructure in the Arab world’s poorest nation.
The Yemen war has settled into a bloody standoff, even as international diplomatic efforts to stop the fighting intensify. The Houthis have in recent months intensified their pressure to regain control of the oil-rich government stronghold Marib, and increased their cross-border attacks on the kingdom.
Yemen’s war began in 2014, when rebels captured the capital Sanaa and much of the country’s north. The Saudi-led military coalition intervened months later to oust the Houthis and restore the internationally recognized government.
The war has killed nearly 130,000 people and led to the world’s worst humanitarian disaster.
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