Rebels launch drone attack on Saudi airport Mosque shooter charged with terrorism

Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they launched a drone attack on an arms depot at the airport in the Saudi Arabia’s border city of Najran, the group’s TV al-Masirah reported on Tuesday. “The attack was carried out by Kasif-K2 drone which caused a fire to break out in the facility,” it said. Meanwhile, the Saudi-led coalition’s spokesman Colonel Turkie al-Maleki said a vital civilian facility in Najran was targeted with a drone-carrying explosives, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television reported. The spokesman did not mention casualties. The attack came a day after Riyadh said its forces had intercepted and destroyed “ballistic missiles” above the Saudi western cities of Jeddah and Taif. Houthis have been targeting Saudi border cities since the beginning of the war in Yemen. New Zealand police on Tuesday filed a terrorism charge against the man accused of killing 51 people at two Christchurch mosques. Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, was already facing murder and attempted murder charges from the March 15 shootings. The new charge came with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment upon conviction and will be a test case for New Zealand’s terrorism law, which came onto the books in 2002 following the terrorist attacks in the United States on Sept 11, 2001. The New Zealand law defines terrorism as including acts that are carried out to advance an ideological, political, or religious cause with the intention of inducing terror in a civilian population.