Yemen launches fresh air strike on Saudi Arabia

Yemeni armed forces have launched fresh drone strikes on king Khalid air base in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Asir province in retaliation for the kingdom’s bloody military aggression against the poverty-stricken country.

State media report that Yemeni army soldiers and allied fighters from popular committees had used Qasif-k2 combat drones to target the air base near the city of Khamis Mushait on Monday.

Yemen’s armed forces spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Sare’e said the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAVS) had targeted a weapons storage site at the air base and caused a large fire there.

He noted that the operation came in response to the crimes committed by the Saudi-led coalition against the Yemeni nation, adding that the alliance had carried out 20 airstrikes on Yemen in the past 24 hours.

Sare’e said drones and missile operations will continue, and will expand in a manner that is not expected by the Saudi regime as long as Saudi Arabia continues its aggression, siege and contempt.

Yemeni fighters regularly target positions inside Saudi Arabia in retaliation for the Saudi offensive, which began in March 2015 in an attempt to reinstall the country’s Riyadh-allied former regime and crush the Houthi Ansarullah movement.