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Saudi-led coalition renews airstrikes against Yemen's Houthis

Riyadh-led airstrikes came after Yemen's Houthis launched a projectile into the southern Saudi province of Jizan, killing two people late last week.

Saudi-backed government troops repel a Huthi rebel offensive on oil-rich Marib, some 120 kilometres (75 miles) east of Yemen's rebel-held capital Sanaa, on Feb. 14, 2021.
Saudi-backed government troops repel a Houthi rebel offensive on oil-rich Marib, some 75 miles east of the rebel-held capital Sanaa, Yemen, Feb. 14, 2021. — AFP via Getty Images

The Saudi Arabia-led military coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthi rebels said it launched renewed airstrikes in response to a projectile attack that killed two people near the southern Saudi Jizan province on Friday.

The coalition said it launched a “large-scale military operation” against the Houthis, including some 40 strikes against rebel targets in Yemen’s north, Saudi Arabia’s Al-Ekhbariya TV reported on Saturday.

The Riyadh-led coalition also launched strikes on what it said was a Houthi military camp in the rebel-held Yemeni capital, Sanaa, on Saturday.

“The operation in Sanaa was an immediate response to an attempt to transfer weapons from al-Tashrifat camp in Sanaa,” the state-run Saudi Press Agency said.

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