SANAA, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's Houthi militia said they launched a bomb-laden drone at the King Khalid Airbase in Saudi Arabia's southwestern city of Khamis Mushait and hit it at dawn on Monday, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported.
Saudi Arabia made no immediate comment on the alleged attack.
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
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