Saudi Arabia today intercepted a ballistic missile over the kingdom’s south near the border with Yemen, state media reported, hours after Yemeni rebels said they had launched an attack.<\/p>\n
The Huthi rebels, locked in a war against Yemen’s Saudi- backed government, said they had fired a missile at the kingdom’s southwestern province of Najran in a statement tweeted by their Al-Masirah television channel.<\/p>\n
Saudi air defences intercepted the ballistic missile over Najran, according to the kingdom’s state-owned Al Ekhbariya news channel.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for the Saudi-led military alliance fighting the Huthis in Yemen did not immediately respond to a request for further details.<\/p>\n
Saudi Arabia, which has been targeted by multiple rocket attacks in recent weeks, has blamed its regional rival Iran for arming the Shiite Huthis in the Yemen war.<\/p>\n
The kingdom denounced the threat of “Iranian-manufactured ballistic weapons” after it intercepted a ballistic missile fired from Yemen over Riyadh in December.<\/p>\n
No casualties have been reported in the attacks.<\/p>\n
The Saudi-led coalition intervened in support of President Abedrabbo Mansur Hadi’s government in March 2015, after the Huthis took over the capital Sanaa and much of the rest of the country.<\/p>\n
But despite the coalition’s superior firepower, the rebels still control the capital and much of the north.<\/p>\n
More than 8,750 people have been killed since the coalition intervened, according to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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