SANAA, April 28 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's Houthi militia said they attacked the King Khalid Airbase in Saudi Arabia's southwestern city of Khamis Mushait with a bomb-laden drone before dawn on Wednesday.
"The hit was precise," Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported, citing a statement from the militia spokesman Yehya Sarea as saying.
Meanwhile, Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV said that "the Saudi air defenses intercepted and destroyed a bomb-laden drone that the Houthi militia fired from Yemen towards the kingdom."
Cross-border missile and drone attacks by the Iran-backed Houthis have escalated since February when the group began a major offensive against the Saudi-backed Yemeni government army to capture the oil-rich province of Marib in central Yemen.
Yemen has been mired in a civil war since late 2014 when the Houthi militia seized control of several northern provinces and forced the internationally recognized government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi out of the capital Sanaa.
A Saudi-led Arab coalition intervened in the Yemeni conflict in March 2015 to support Hadi's government. Enditem