The Saudi authorities plan to soon reopen a regional airport in Najran near the border with Yemen, closed almost four years ago due to constant shelling, local media reported Wednesday, citing informed sources
DOHA (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 09th January, 2019) The Saudi authorities plan to soon reopen a regional airport in Najran near the border with Yemen, closed almost four years ago due to constant shelling, local media reported Wednesday, citing informed sources.According to the Sabq news outlet, the airport will be gradually put into operation in the near future.
The Saudi authorities closed the airport of Najran in 2015, previously used for flights by residents of southwestern Saudi Arabia, after the start of regular shelling of the city and the airport by rebels of the Shiite Houthi movement, officially known as the Ansar Allah, from the territory of Yemen.
Yemen has been gripped by a civil war between the government and the Shiite Houthi movement since 2015. In March 2015, Saudi Arabia and its allies Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Pakistan, Sudan, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates engaged in the conflict at the request of the Yemeni authorities to assist the country's government in its fight against the Houthi rebels. The intense fighting between the two parties resulted in one of the world's most acute humanitarian crises, with about 18 million people in the country being food insecure, according to the UN figures.
