Saudi Arabia, Houthis exchange attacks — Pajhwok

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Saudi-led coalition has reported intercepting several missiles and a drone fired by the Houthis towards Saudi Arabia amid rising military tensions between the two sides, a media report said on Tuesday. According to Reuters, the Saudi-led coalition said on Tuesday that the country’s air defences had intercepted and destroyed two missiles fired towards Riyadh, a ballistic missile targeting southern areas of Saudi Arabia and a drone over the country’s Eastern Province. It said Saudi Civil Defence had earlier issued an early-warning alert for Riyadh before later announcing that the threat had passed. The Houthi-run Saba news agency reported that Saudi Arabia had carried out airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthi-controlled capital, Sanaa, hitting the al-Mufazir gas station in the Jadar district north of the capital and a building belonging to the state-owned oil company in southern Sanaa. It said civil defence teams were working to extinguish a fire involving gas trailers at the al-Mufazir station. Reuters reported that Saudi officials had not confirmed the reported airstrikes by the time of publication, while the Houthis had not claimed responsibility for firing the missiles and drones towards Saudi Arabia.