The Saudi-led military coalition said Sunday that it shot down a ballistic missile fired at the Kingdom from Yemen, according to reports.
The missile targeting the southern city of Najran was intercepted at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, a statement carried on the official Saudi Press Agency says.
On the same day, Saudi-led airstrikes hit hideouts of the Yemen-based al-Qaida offshoot in Yemen’s southern province of Abyan, killing “many terrorists,” according to a report in the China-based Xinhua news, which spoke to residents near the strike.
Peace talks between the Saudi-led coalition and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels have been ongoing and appear to have stalled.
Saudi Arabia’s intervention in Yemen enters its 16th month, the view from Riyadh on the conflict is seen as largely “upbeat,” according to a report by Yaroslav Trofimov in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal. “On balance, officials here say, the war was worth it and time is working in the Saudis’ favor.”
Some Saudi Arabia “argue a premature deal could be more dangerous for Saudi Arabia’s domestic consensus,” the WSJ reports.
