Saudi forces destroy 10 armed drones fired by Houthi Yemen rebels amid higher tensions.
The Saudi-led coalition involved in Yemen on Sunday said it had launched 10 armed drones with the Iranian-linked Houthi movement, involving at least five shot towards Saudi Arabia, which was reported on state television channels.
The coalition did not specify locations in the country but said the drones were targeting “civilian sites”. On Saturday, the coalition said it seized seven drones over 24 hours launched against Khamis Mushait and one against Jazan, both in southern Saudi Arabia.
The Houthis, which has been fighting the armed coalition since its involvement in the Yemeni civil war in March 2015, recently set up cross-border missiles and drones on Saudi cities, which mostly in the south of the kingdom.
The United States and the United Nations have thwarted diplomatic efforts to end the conflict, which is largely seen in the region as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Riyadh and its allies say they are fighting to restore the rule of an internationally recognized government, with President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi removed and removed from power. after Houthis took over the capital in late 2014.
The Houthis, who now control most of the north, deny that they are Tehran puppets and say they are fighting a corrupt system. and foreign invasions.
Fighting has also erupted on the ground in Yemen in the Marib and Taiz regions. The war, in years-long military closures, has killed tens of thousands of people and pushed Yemen to death.
Doctors of a borderless medical charity (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) said on Friday that Al-Thawra hospital in Taiz had treated 28 people injured in intense fights since Wednesday and that the hospital itself was hit by gunfire , injuring three, including a 12- year-old boy.
In Marib, the last last stronghold of the government, hundreds of fighters from all sides were killed.