Major General Turki Al Maliki, the official spokesperson for Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Defence, said the country’s forces intercepted and destroyed a drone in the eastern part of the nation.
This comes after Saudi Arabia destroyed two ballistic missiles in the Al-Kharj region, southeast of the capital Riyadh, on Wednesday.
Earlier the Saudi Ministry of Defense had said it had intercepted and destroyed nine drones.
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