TEHRAN – Yemeni air defense forces shot down a Saudi reconnaissance droneover the Arabian Peninsula country’s central Ma’rib province, Tasnim NewsAgency has reported.link>link>link>link>Yemen’sArabic-language al-Masirah satellite television network reported onThursday that the drone was shot down over the province’s Harib al-Qaramishregion.
It came less than a month after Yemeni fighters managed to shoot down aSaudi unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on December 30as it was on areconnaissance mission in Yemen’s northwestern province of Hajjah.
Also, on October 27, Yemeni forces, using a surface-to-air missile, shotdown a Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet belonging to the Royal Saudi AirForce as it was flying east of the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a.
Earlier that month, the Yemeni army announced that it also managed to shootdown a US-made General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper, a drone operated by the RoyalSaudi Air Force.
Such attacks against Saudi forces come in retaliation for the continuedmassacre of civilians and destruction of Yemen’s infrastructure by thecoalition led by the Riyadh regime.
Yemen’s defenseless people have been under massive attacks by the coalitionfor almost three years but Riyadh has reached none of its objectives in thecountry so far.
Since March 2015, Saudi Arabia and some of its Arab allies have beencarrying out deadly airstrikes against the Houthi Ansarullah movement in anattempt to restore power to fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh MansourHadi.
Over 14,000 Yemenis, including thousands of women and children, have losttheir lives in the deadly military campaign.