Yemen rebels say targeted Saudi base

SANAA, Yemen

Yemen’s Houthi rebel group said it launched drone attacks on King Khaled airbase in southwestern Saudi Arabia late Tuesday.

In a statement, Yahia Sarie, a spokesman for the rebel group, said the attack "hit its targets with high accuracy."

No information has yet been available about casualties or damage.

Meanwhile, Col. Turki al-Maliki, a spokesman for the Saudi-led Arab coalition, said the coalition shot down a drone fired by the Houthis from the Yemeni province of Amran towards residential areas in Saudi city of Khamis Mushait.

Yemen has remained wracked by violence since 2014, when the Iran-aligned Houthi group overran much of the country, including the capital Sanaa.

The conflict escalated the following year when Saudi Arabia and its Sunni-Arab allies launched a massive air campaign aimed at rolling back Houthi gains in Yemen and supporting the country’s pro-Saudi government.

More than 70,000 people have been killed in the raging conflict since 2016, according to UN estimations.