{"id":16634,"date":"2019-05-22T12:36:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T12:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=16634"},"modified":"2019-05-22T12:36:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T12:36:06","slug":"yemeni-forces-launch-drone-attack-on-warplane-hangars-at-najran-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/yemeni-forces-launch-drone-attack-on-warplane-hangars-at-najran-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemeni forces launch drone attack on warplane hangars at Najran airport"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yemeni armed forces have launched another retaliatory drone strike against an airport in Saudi Arabia\u2019s southwestern Najran region, this time targeting hangars housing the regime\u2019s warplanes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yemen\u2019s al-Masirah television network reported the counter-strike on Wednesday morning, without giving details about possible casualties or material damage.<\/p>\n

A day earlier, the network said Yemeni forces, led by the Houthi Ansarullah movement, had launched a counterattack on an arms depot inside the same airport, using a Qasef-2K combat drone. The strike caused a fire at the airport.<\/p>\n

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PressTV-Yemeni drone targets arms depot at Saudi airport<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Yemeni armed forces launch a drone strike on an arms depot at Najran airport, days after Ansarullah warned of more retaliatory attacks against Saudi Arabia.<\/a><\/div>\n

In mid-May, the Yemeni army launched drone raids on a major oil pipeline deep inside the Saudi kingdom in retaliation for the regime\u2019s war crimes against Yemen, forcing state crude giant Aramco to temporarily stop pumping oil on the pipeline.<\/p>\n

The Ansarullah movement warned on Sunday that those strikes were the start of operations against 300 vital targets in Saudi Arabia and\u00a0the United Arab Emirates \u2014 a key member of the Saudi-led coalition waging war on Yemen \u2014 as well as positions inside\u00a0Yemen, where the foreign aggressors and their allied Yemeni militants hold bases.<\/p>\n

\u2018Claim of Yemeni attack on Mecca big lie\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile,\u00a0the movement\u2019s leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi reacted strongly on Tuesday\u00a0to recent reports in Saudi media, alleging that the Houthi fighters had launched a missile attack against the holy city of Mecca in the kingdom.<\/p>\n

He called the accusation<\/a> \u201ca big lie and an abominable allegation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who conspire against the al-Aqsa Mosque [in the Israel-occupied holy city of Jerusalem al-Quds] are also capable of conspiring against the Grand Mosque [in Mecca] upon being asked to,\u201d al-Houthi was quoted by al-Masirah as saying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was referring to the Saudi regime\u2019s widely-reported covert ties with Israel and Riyadh\u2019s support for a controversial American plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Saudi regime is one of the United States\u2019 biggest supporters and maintains ties with Israel,\u201d he said, adding the regime is trying to use holy sites for political purposes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Houthis took over control of Yemen\u2019s affairs in 2014 amid a political turmoil, which saw the country\u2019s former Saudi-backed officials flee to Riyadh after refusing to continue political talks with the movement.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia then led many of its regional allies into an all-out invasion of the Arab world\u2019s most impoverished nation to restore its favorite government.<\/p>\n

Some reports<\/a> put the number of fatalities from the war at tens of thousands. The country has turned into the scene of the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crisis<\/a>, and is teetering on the edge of a nationwide famine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Yemeni armed forces have launched another retaliatory drone strike against an airport in Saudi Arabia\u2019s southwestern Najran region, this time targeting hangars housing the regime\u2019s warplanes. Yemen\u2019s al-Masirah television network reported the counter-strike on Wednesday morning, without giving details about possible casualties or material damage. A day earlier, the network said Yemeni forces, led by …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16636,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16634\/revisions\/16636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}