Houthi Drone Attack on Saudi Airport Injures 16

Yemen’s Houthi militia launched a drone attack on Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Airport in Jazan, about 36 miles (58 kilometers) from the Yemeni border, injuring 16 people, three of them critically, the Saudi-led coalition said in a tweet by the state-run Saudi Press Agency on Monday. On Feb. 10, 12 civilians were injured in a similar attack targeting Saudi Arabia’s Abha International Airport. The Houthis have launched multiple drone and missile attacks, mostly on Saudi areas bordering Yemen, in retaliation for intensified coalition airstrikes against the rebels’ facilities in Yemen. Yemen was plunged into civil war in 2014, when the Houthis seized control of several northern provinces and forced the internationally recognized government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi out of the capital, Sanaa.