SANAA, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's Houthi militia said they launched a bomb-laden drone targeting the King Khalid Air Base in Saudi Arabia at dawn on Friday.
"The hit was precise," Houthi military spokesman Yehya Sarea said in a statement aired by the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV.
However, Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV reported that the Saudi air defenses intercepted and destroyed the drone launched toward the southwestern Saudi city of Khamis Mushait.
Cross-border missile and drone attacks by the Iran-backed Houthis have escalated since February when the group began a major offensive against the Saudi-backed Yemeni government army to capture the oil-rich province of Marib in central Yemen.
Yemen has been mired in a civil war since late 2014 when the Houthi militia seized control of several northern provinces and forced the internationally recognized government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi out of the capital Sanaa.
The Saudi-led Arab coalition started to intervene in the Yemeni conflict in March 2015 to support Hadi's government. Enditem
