This archive report was first published on 2 July 2019.
On July 2, 2019, a drone attack on Abha international airport in Saudi Arabia left nine civilians injured, including eight Saudi citizens and one carrying an Indian passport, according to the military coalition.
The Iran-aligned Huthi rebels, based in neighboring Yemen, have been escalating missile and drone attacks across the border in recent weeks, despite persistent coalition bombing since March 2015.
The coalition intervened in support of the Yemeni government in 2015, when President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi fled into Saudi exile as the rebels closed in on his last remaining territory in and around the second city Aden.
The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people, many of them civilians, and triggered what the United Nations describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with millions of people displaced and in need of aid.
