The
Houthi military spokesman said on Twitter that one drone was
launched at a military base in Khamis Mushait. The coalition
later in the day said seven drones fired towards the south of
the kingdom were also intercepted.
The Iran-aligned Houthis havwe frequently targeted Khamis
Mushait and other Saudi cities along the frontier in the more
than six-year-old Yemen war.
A military coalition led by Riyadh intervened in Yemen in March
2015 after the Houthis ousted the Saudi-backed, internationally
recognised government from the capital Sanaa.
(Writing by Ghaida Ghantous and Raya Jalabi; Editing by William
Mallard and Mark Heinrich)
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