(MENAFN) Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed they hit a military target in the King Khalid Airbase in Saudi Arabia's southwestern city of Khamis Mushait with a bomb-laden drone before dawn on Thursday.
Houthis al-Masirah TV quoted the group’s military official Yehya Sarea as sayign in a report that "The attack was precise."
The Saudi-led coalition forces thwarted a drone attack that the Houthi rebel group fired from Yemen to Khamis Mushait, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV reported.
The Iran-backed Houthis have intensified their cross-border missile and drone attacks since February when the militia initiated a major offensive against the Saudi-backed Yemeni government army to control the oil-rich province of Marib in central Yemen.
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