The spokesman of the Arab Coalition Forces in Support of the Legitimacy in Yemen, Colonel Turki Al-Malki said today that the Yemeni national army, supported by the coalition forces, is advancing towards the villages along the Red Sea coast nearing Al-Hodeida with only 20 kilometers. In his regular weekly press conference, Al-Malki said the recent U.S. sanctions imposed on a host of Iranian individuals and organizations as well as the terrorist Al-Houthi militias in Yemen are yet another evidence that Iran is a terror-sponsor state. He also cited the withdrawal of ten Yemeni representatives from the Popular Conference Party, led by Nasser Bajeel, as a sign of what the once-Houthi-allies suffer from the Houthi militias who are not allowing them to freely practice their political rights. Regarding the drone which attacked Abha last week, Al-Malki said the Saudi royal air forces have successfully intercepted and destroyed the non-pilot plane and later, the coalition monitored the Saada-based assembling apparatus, strictly attacked the persons in charge of this terrorist act as well as those who tried to move the planes and hide them in a neighboring building. He said the coalition forces is going to decisively deal with the so-called Qasef plane which is in fact the Iranian Ababil craft, used in terrorist actions against the Kingdom's people and expatriates residing in the Kingdom as well as the civil properties. --More 02:06 LOCAL TIME 23:06 GMT 0034 www.spa.gov.sa/1770852
