DUBAI: Yemen’s Houthis said Thursday they fired a ballistic missile at Saudi Arabia and hit a military target, in the second such attack this month, after threatening to retaliate over a crippling blockade. “We confirm the success of our ballistic missile trial, which hit its military target inside Saudi Arabia,” the Houthi-run Al-Masira television channel said. A spokesman for the Saudi-led military coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Earlier, rebel chief Abdulmalik al-Houthi warned against “prolonging the blockade” imposed on Yemen following a November 4 Houthi missile attack that was intercepted near Riyadh international airport. Yemen’s war has claimed more than 8,600 lives since the Saudi-led coalition joined the government’s war against the Houthi rebel alliance.

Source: Pakistan Today November 30, 2017 20:26 UTC