Yemen's Houthis claim drone, missile attacks on Saudi-led coalition, government forces

Yemen's Houthi movement had launched drone and missile attacks on the Saudi-led coalition and the government forces in both Yemen and Saudi Arabia, according to statements the group released on Friday night.

The Houthis attacked a weapons depot in the Ras Abbas area of Aden with drones and missiles. The group also said they struck a military assembly point of the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen's southern governorate of Lahij with multiple ballistic missiles, causing heavy casualties.

In another statement, the Houthis said the Saudi-led coalition carried out 85 airstrikes and missile attacks on multiple areas of Yemen over the past 24 hours, which brings the total number of coalition airstrikes and missile attacks on Yemen since the latest escalation to 4,948.

The Houthis said two military operations on targets in Saudi Arabia were carried out on Friday night. Drone strikes were launched on King Khalid International Airport in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, and a pumping station of the kingdom's East-West oil pipeline located east of Riyadh. The group said the strikes achieved their objectives.

In an earlier statement, the group also said it fired two ballistic missiles at gatherings of Saudi forces in Saudi Arabia's Jazan province, which hit targets with precision, killing and wounding dozens, including Sudanese nationals.

Yemen's Houthis claim drone, missile attacks on Saudi-led coalition, government forces

A spectacular blanket of morning mist has enveloped the waters and forests around a bridge over the Ili River in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region as the diurnal temperature gap widens over the past few days.

Piercing through the gauzy fog, the first rays of dawn cascade into warm, golden beams, spilling over the broad river surface and the sprawling secondary forests along the banks. The scene unfolds like a luminous, gently breathing oil painting - soft, fluid, and alive with color.

Along the riverside, vast groves of golden poplars stand in graceful disarray, while secondary forests, a layered mosaic of deep emerald and tender green, stretch continuously.

Morning mist paints picturesque scene over Ili River in Xinjiang