📌 Key Highlights & Quick Takeaways:
- Coalition forces supporting Yemen's legitimate government said on Saturday they had shot down a ballistic missile and a drone in mid-air aim.
- Shortly after 4:00 AM, the Saudi Civil Defense issued an alert through its 'Early Warning Platform', warning of possible air threats in Riya.
- Minutes after the alert was issued, two loud explosions rang out in the capital.
Coalition forces supporting Yemen's legitimate government said on Saturday they had shot down a ballistic missile and a drone in mid-air aimed at Saudi Arabia amid heavy cross-border attacks by Iran-backed Houthi militias.
Shortly after 4:00 AM, the Saudi Civil Defense issued an alert through its 'Early Warning Platform', warning of possible air threats in Riyadh, Najran and the southern governorate of Wadi Al-Dawasar.
Minutes after the alert was issued, two loud explosions rang out in the capital.
Later, in a statement released on X (formerly Twitter), the spokesman of the coalition forces, Brigadier General Turki Al-Maliki, said, "The air defense system intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired by the terrorist Houthi militia towards Riyadh."
In a previous post, Turki Al-Maliki said that "a drone was intercepted and destroyed in Sharqiya".
