
The Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen intercepted and destroyed a Houthi-launched ballistic missile north of Riyadh, tracking its launch platform from Sanaa and vowing to destroy it, following an earlier interception near Khamis Mushait.
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The Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen, led by Saudi Arabia, has been engaged in a military campaign against Houthi forces since 2015, regularly intercepting ballistic missiles launched toward Saudi territory.
RIYADH — The Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen said early Wednesday it intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile north of Riyadh launched by the Houthis.
The coalition said it was tracking the missile’s launch platform through its intelligence systems over Sanaa and vowed to destroy it.
“We are tracking the launch platform through the coalition’s intelligence system in the skies over Sanaa, and we will destroy it,” Maj. Gen. Turki Al-Maliki, spokesperson of the Coalition said.
Earlier, the coalition announced the interception and destruction of another Houthi ballistic missile launched toward Khamis Mushait.
It said Sanaa, Saada and Amran provinces were the sources of Houthi missile threats and pledged to continue neutralizing ballistic and surface-to-surface missile threats and destroying their launch sources.
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The Coalition will destroy the Houthi missile launch platform tracked over Sanaa.
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