DUBAI, August 29, 2018 (News Wires) - Yemeni Houthi rebels fired a ballistic missile at Saudi Arabia's Najran region near the border between the two countries, the Houthi-controlled Masirah TV said on Wednesday. The Badr-1 missile targeted "a new military camp," it said, without indicating when the missile was launched. Saudi Arabia's military said on Tuesday its air defences intercepted a missile fired toward the southern city of Najran but there were no casualties. Saudi Arabia is leading a Western-backed alliance of Sunni Muslim Arab states trying to restore the internationally recognised government of Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, ousted from the capital Sanaa by the Houthis in 2015. The Iran-aligned Houthis control most of the west of Yemen, including its Red Sea coast. UN human rights experts said in a report on Tuesday that both the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi militia may be guilty of war crimes in the conflict, which has raged for more than three years. The United Nations has convened talks in Geneva on Sept 6, the first effort to negotiate the war in more than two years.
