Coalition forces in Yemen have successfully intercepted and shot down an unmanned drone in the airspace of the Republic of Yemen fired by the Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist militia from Al-Jawf towards Saudi Arabia.

Colonel Turki al-Maliki, a spokesman for the coalition forces, said the alliance to support legitimacy in Yemen, in a statement broadcast by the Saudi Press Agency, that all attempts by the Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist militia to launch drones are doomed to failure. The best practices of the rules of engagement to deal with these aircraft to protect civilians, and that repeated terrorist attempts reflect the desperation of the terrorist militia and confirms the criminality of Iran's agents in the region and who stands behind them, and the continued adoption of the false successes through misleading media The size of the losses it receives and the popular discontent towards it.

Colonel al-Maliki stressed the continued leadership of the joint coalition forces to implement deterrent measures against this terrorist militia to neutralize and destroy these capabilities and strictly, in accordance with international humanitarian law and customary rules.