Houthi ballistic missile attack on Abha International Airport, Abha · 25 March 2018
Yemen rebels fire missiles into Saudi Arabia
- Date
- 25 March 2018 · 8 Rajab 1439 AH
- Place
- Abha International Airport, Abha
- Attacker
- Houthis
- Weapons
- Ballistic missile
- Outcome
- Intercepted
- Killed / injured
- No casualties reported
- Launched from
- Saada (assumed)
- Confirmation
- Reported by several sources
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Sources (5 reports in all)
- Yemen rebels fire missiles into Saudi Arabia
“One person was killed and two others were wounded in a ballistic missile attack on Saudi Arabia on Sunday, state media reported. Saudi armed forces said they intercepted seven ballistic missiles on Sunday night,…”
- Saudi Arabia announces intercepting seven Houthi missilesالسعودية تعلن اعتراض سبعة صواريخ حوثية (machine translation)
“The Houthis announced the launch of several ballistic missiles at various regions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, while Riyadh announced it intercepted the missiles and that one person was killed in the capital region and others injured. The Houthis said their forces carried out wide strikes with ballistic missiles…”
- Houthis: Launching missiles at Saudi Arabia is a rational actالحوثيون: إطلاق صواريخ على السعودية تصرف عقلاني (machine translation)
“Al-Bukhaiti said - in a bulletin for Al Jazeera - that these strikes are rational action, and that the Houthis did not undertake them except after they had given the Saudi and Emirati leaderships an opportunity to review their positions, and after they had acquired a strategic stockpile and production lines capable…”
- Expert: No evidence that Saudi Arabia downed Houthi missilesخبير: لا دليل على إسقاط السعودية صواريخ حوثية (machine translation)
“An American expert questioned the Saudi account of intercepting the seven ballistic missiles that the Houthis launched from Yemen at Riyadh last Monday. Jeffrey Lewis, director of the nuclear nonproliferation program at the Middlebury Center for Studies…”
- A peek inside Houthi Rebel’s recent missile strikes in Saudi Arabia
“Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired several missiles into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Sunday. The attack came on the eve of the third anniversary of Operation Decisive Storm (March 26, 2015), when a coalition of states – led…”