ANSD : Missile fired at Saudi Arabia's Najran region: Yemen's Houthis

SUN 24 - 11 - 2024

Date: Aug 29, 2018
Source: The Daily Star

Missile fired at Saudi Arabia's Najran region: Yemen's Houthis

_Reuters
DUBAI: Yemeni Houthi rebels fired a ballistic missile at Saudi Arabia's Najran region near the border between the two countries, the Houthi-controlled Masirah TV said Wednesday.

The Badr-1 missile targeted "a new military camp," it said, without indicating when the missile was launched.

Saudi Arabia's military said Tuesday its air defenses intercepted a missile fired towards the southern city of Najran but there were no casualties.

The Arab coalition is trying to restore the internationally recognized government of Yemeni President Abed Rabbou Mansour Hadi, ousted from the capital Sanaa by the Houthis in 2015.

The Iran-backed Houthis control most of the west of Yemen, including its Red Sea coast.

U.N. human rights experts said in a report Tuesday that both the Arab coalition and the Houthis may be guilty of war crimes in the conflict, which has raged for more than three years.

The experts' panel said air strikes by the coalition in Yemen have caused heavy civilian casualties, raising concerns about its targeting process.

The panel also accused Houthi fighters of restricting access on humanitarian aid and conscripting child soldiers. The Houthis regularly fire missiles on southern Saudi Arabia and occasionally aim for higher-value targets, such as the capital Riyadh or facilities of state oil company Aramco.

The United Nations has convened talks in Geneva Sept 6, the first effort to negotiate the war in more than two years.

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