Saudi shoots down Yemen militia missile
Khamis Mushait air base, in Saudi Arabia's southwest, has been at the forefront of coalition bombing campaign against Houthi militias
The Saudi-led coalition battling militias in Yemen said Monday it shot down a missile fired by the insurgents towards an airbase in southern Saudi Arabia.
The missile was the latest aimed at the kingdom since the coalition began air raids to support Yemen's internationally-backed government in March last year.
Khamis Mushait air base, in Saudi Arabia's southwest, has been at the forefront of the coalition bombing campaign against Houthi militias and their allies.
Saudi Arabia has deployed Patriot missile batteries to counter tactical ballistic missiles fired occasionally from Yemen during the war.
Fighting in Yemen has intensified since the collapse of UN-backed peace talks in Kuwait on August 6.
Rebels have also fired harder-to-detect Katyusha rockets, particularly into the Saudi border city of Najran.
More than 100 civilians and soldiers have died in strikes and skirmishes along the frontier.
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