Press TV - Yemeni Ansarullah forces have launched a retaliatory missile attack at a Saudi military base in the kingdom's southwestern border region ofAsir.
According to Yemen'sal-Masirah television network on Saturday, Yemeni troops fired a domestically built Badr-1 ballistic missile at the base.
Saudi Arabia claims to have downed the missile before it hit its target.
On Friday, Yemeni army forces, fired a domestically-designed and -developed ballistic missile at a strategic economic target in Saudi Arabias southwestern border region of Jizan.
A Yemeni military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the short-rangeBadr-1missile struck Jazan Economic City, located 967kilometerssouthwest of the capital Riyadh, with great precision early on Friday.
The development came a day after Yemeni forces fired a Badr-1 missile at al-Anad air base in the southwestern province of Lahij, leaving scores of Saudi-backed militiamen loyal to Yemen's resigned president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi,dead and injured.
Also on Friday, more than a dozen Saudi mercenaries were killed and injured as Yemeni snipers and their allies carried out separate operations across the country.
The Yemeni army has so far launched numerous missile strikes against military and economic targets inside Saudi Arabia; however, Riyadh often claims that it intercepts incoming Yemeni missiles, despite the existence ofevidence to the contrary.
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Smoke billows following an air-strike by the Saudi-led coalition targeting the Al-Dailami air base, in the capital Sana'a on April 5, 2018. (Photo by AFP)[/caption]Saudi Arabia and its allies launched the war on Yemen in March 2015 in support of Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh. TheYemeni Ministry of Human Rightsannounced in astatementon March 25 that the Saudi-led war had left 600,000 civilians dead and injured until then.
TheYemeni Ministry of Human Rightsannounced in astatementon March 25 that the Saudi-led war had left 600,000 civilians dead and injured since March 2015.
The United Nations says a record 22.2 million Yemenis are in need of food aid, including 8.4 million threatened by severe hunger.
A high-ranking UN aid official recently warned against the catastrophic living conditions in Yemen, stating that there was a growing risk of famine and cholera there.
