Saudi-Led Coalition Reportedly Intercepts Explosive Drone Fired Towards City of Khamis Mushait

07:45 GMT, 5 March 2021

The Royal Saudi Air Defence Forces on Thursday intercepted and downed a ballistic missile launched by the Yemeni Shia rebel Houthi movement in the direction of the kingdom's southwestern province of Jazan.

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The Saudi-led coalition intercepted a second explosive drone launched towards Khamis Mushait, according to the news outlet Al Arabiya.

Earlier in the day, Saudi-led coalition forces in Yemen destroyed a bomb-laden unmanned aerial vehicle, which had been launched by the Houthis toward the Saudi city of Khamis Mushait, coalition spokesman Brig. Gen. Turki Al-Maliki said on Friday.

"Joint Coalition Forces have intercepted and destroyed this morning (Friday) a bomb-laden UAV launched systematically and deliberately by the terrorist Houthi militia to target civilians and civilian objects in Khamis Mushait," Al-Maliki said in a statement, published by the Saudi Press Agency.

Saudi-led Coalition Destroys Houthi Ballistic Missile Launched Towards Jizan, Reports Say

4 March 2021, 04:16 GMT

The war in Yemen has been ongoing since 2014 between the government forces and the Houthis, also known as the Ansar Allah movement. In 2015, the Saudi-led Arab coalition joined the fighting on the government's side.

Amid massive destruction and disruption as a result of the conflict, the United Nations considers Yemen the world's largest humanitarian crisis, with around 80 percent of the population in need of humanitarian assistance.