RIYADH — The Arab Coalition said its forces intercepted and destroyed early Thursday an armed drone launched by the Iran-backed Houthi militia, targeting the southwestern Saudi city of Khamis Mushait. In the statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency, the spokesman of the Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen, Brigadier General Turki Al-Malki, said: "The coalition forces have intercepted and destroyed this morning a bomb-laden UAV launched systematically and deliberately by the terrorist Houthi militia to target civilians and civilian facilities in Khamis Mushait." On Wednesday, the coalition said a terrorist attack by the Houthi militia hit the Abha International Airport in Saudi Arabia in which a civilian airplane caught fire. The attack, however, did not result in any loss of life and the fire was immediately put out by the local authorities. Before the Abha airport attack, the coalition forces on Wednesday intercepted and destroyed two armed drones launched by the Iran-backed Houthis targeting Saudi Arabia. The Houthi militia has stepped up attacks against Saudi Arabia recently. On Sunday, the coalition intercepted four explosive-laden Houthi drones launched toward the Kingdom and on Saturday it destroyed one drone.
