Yemen’s armed forces said they carried out a missile attack on Riyadh’s airport.<\/p>\n
Yahya Saree, the spokesman for Yemen’s armed forces, said King Khalid Airport in Riyadh was targeted with a ballistic missile and that the attack disrupted operations at the airport.<\/p>\n
In a press statement, he said the move was part of what he described as \u201cretaliatory responses\u201d to Saudi attacks on Yemeni territory, and claimed the missile hit its target \u201cwith precision.\u201d<\/p>\n
Saree also said a \u201cSaudi enemy aircraft\u201d was shot down while carrying out what he described as \u201chostile actions\u201d in the skies over Taiz province, using what he called \u201can appropriate weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n
The spokesman for Yemen’s armed forces warned international airlines against continuing flights in Saudi airspace and voiced concern over the \u201cconsequences\u201d of doing so. According to him, Saudi airspace \u2014 with the exception of the skies over the holy cities of Mecca and Medina \u2014 has \u201cbecome a theatre of military operations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yemen’s armed forces say they hit Riyadh’s King Khalid Airport with a ballistic missile and shot down a Saudi aircraft over Taiz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international","category-secondary-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}