Press TV - Yemeni army soldiers, backed by Houthi�Ansarullah fighters,�have launched a drone attack on a Saudi airbase in retaliation for the Riyadh regime's stepped-up bombing campaign on the impoverished nation.�

Arabic-language�al-Masirah television network�reported that a Yemeni Qasif-1 (Striker-1) combat drone�had accurately hit King Khalid airbase in Saudi Arabia's southwestern Asir region.



The drone strike came one day after the Saudi-led coalition attacked the al-Dulaimi airbase in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, and its surrounding areas.

Coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki told Saudi state al-Ekhbaria TV on Friday that the airbase targeted had been used by the Houthis to "launch drone and ballistic missile attacks.�

Al-Masirah said more than 30 Saudi air raids had targeted the al-Dulaimi base and its adjacent areas.

Additionally on Friday, clashes erupted between the Houthi fighters and Saudi-backed militants loyal to former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in the port city of Hudaydah, the�entry point for most of Yemen�s imports and aid supplies.

Saudi Arabia and its allies launched a brutal war against Yemen in March 2015 in an attempt to reinstall the Riyadh-allied�Hadi regime and crush the Houthis.

Back in June, the Saudi-led coalition launched the Hudaydah offensive despite international warnings that it would compound the war-torn nation�s humanitarian crisis.

Saudi Arabia claims that the Houthis are�using�the port city for weapons delivery,�an allegation rejected by the fighters.

The Western-backed imposed war on Yemen, coupled with a naval blockade, has destroyed the country's infrastructure and led to famine.

Yemeni fighters regularly target�positions inside Saudi Arabia in retaliatory attacks against�the Saudi war on the import-dependent state.