Saudi-led coalition says it downs drone over oil-rich Eastern Region

CAIRO: The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said early on Saturday that it intercepted and destroyed a drone over Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich Eastern Region as attacks by Yemen’s Houthis group continue. Cross-border fighting involving the Saudi-led coalition, which backs Yemen’s government, and the Houthis, who control the capital Sanaa, has intensified amid the US-Israeli war on Iran, opening another front in the conflict. The Eastern Region, which is the economic powerhouse of Saudi Arabia, h

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