{"id":23838,"date":"2026-10-13T06:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T06:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/13\/yemen-forces-say-they-shot-down-saudi-drone-over-saada\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T06:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T06:30:15","slug":"yemen-forces-say-they-shot-down-saudi-drone-over-saada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/13\/yemen-forces-say-they-shot-down-saudi-drone-over-saada\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen Forces Say They Shot Down Saudi Drone Over Saada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahya Saree, spokesman for Yemen&#8217;s armed forces, said a Saudi-owned Wing Loong 2 reconnaissance drone had been shot down in the airspace of Saada province.<\/p>\n<p>He did not provide further details on how the drone was brought down or the exact time of the incident. Yemen&#8217;s armed forces have previously said they had shot down several other drones of the same type.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident, the forces claimed late on Tuesday that they had targeted King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh with a ballistic missile. According to their claim, the missile hit its target.<\/p>\n<p>Yemen&#8217;s armed forces also said they launched a drone attack on Khamis Mushait air base and claimed the strike hit the target directly. Independent sources have not published details or separate confirmation of these claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen&#8217;s armed forces say they shot down a Saudi Wing Loong 2 drone over Saada and attacked targets in Riyadh and Khamis Mushait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23838","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=23838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}