Bangladesh strongly condemns Houthi attack on Saudi Airport

Bangladesh has strongly condemned the recent attacks targeting civilian facilities in Riyadh city and Khamis Mushayt city of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by Houthis.

"We are concerned that such insensible acts undermine the security of the kingdom and tend to adversely impact the peace and stability in the region," said the Foreign Ministry on Monday, reports UNB.

Bangladesh expressed its solidarity with Saudi Arabia against any threat to its security and remains steadfastly committed to regional efforts for the maintenance of peace and stability.

Saudi Arabia has long accused Iran of supplying the Houthis with sophisticated weapons and its Hezbollah proxy of training the insurgents, charges the Islamic republic denies, reports Reuters.

Yemen has been wracked by civil war since 2014 pitting the government against the Houthis who control much of the north.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed, in what the United Nations has described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

The coalition launched a "large-scale" military operation against the Houthis on Saturday, the Saudi authorities said, after missiles fired by the rebels killed two people in the kingdom, the first such deaths in three years.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen on Sunday also said that the Iran-aligned Houthi group had fired 430 ballistic missiles and 851 armed drones at Saudi Arabia since the war started in 2015, killing 59 Saudi civilians.

The spokesman of the Saudi alliance, General Turki al-Malki, said the Iran-aligned movement had been using Sanaa airport as a base to launch attacks on the kingdom, an allegation the Houthis deny.