The Spokesman of AnsarAllah, Mohammed Abdul Salam, said on Wednesday that the new long range Drone, Sammad 2, that targeted Aramco in Riyadh is a successful and qualitative experience.
He added that the nature of the target, the enemy's stubborn attitude toward Yemen and its ongoing crimes all that make from the enemy's economic and military posts an ideal target for more severe operations.
"Our drone air forces have targeted the refinery of Aramco company in Riyadh," read a Twitter posting on the account of Yemen’s al-Masirah television channel.
"The operation by the drone air force is a strong start in a new stage of deterring the aggression," the channel quoted Yemen's army spokesman Brigadier General Sharaf Luqman as saying in a tweet.
According to al-Masirah, the attack was the first to be conducted using a new long-range drone.
Aramco confirmed a fire at its refinery in Riyadh, saying fire control teams and the Saudi civil defense had contained a limited blaze that erupted in the early evening in its refinery in the capital.
Yemeni forces regularly attack positions inside Saudi Arabia in retaliation for the Saudi-led war on Yemen.
Dozens of Saudi-paid forces have been killed and others injured in Yemeni army attacks over the past 24 hours, according to military reports combined by Saba on Wednesday.
The Yemeni drone air force carried out an air offensive on Labnat camp in Jawf province, killing many Saudis, said the official.
In Khab wa Shaaf district of Jawf, the artillery shelled the Saudis gatherings causing direct casualties.
In Hodeidah province, two Saudi military vehicles were destroyed and artillery targeted their troops and shot dead one mercenary north of al-Tahita.
In Bayda province, the army and committees took control on large areas in the strategic mountain of Noufan and other sites in al-Qarishyia after a large-scale offensive on the sites of al-Qaeda and ISIS, large number of casualties.
In Taiz province, the mercenaries were inflicted heavy losses in attacks on their sites in Hamiar front of Maqbana district.
In Marib province, seven Saudi mercenaries were shot dead in separate areas of Serwah district.
In Asir region, a barrage of Katyusha missiles and artillery shells were launched toward gatherings of Saudi-paid forces in al-Tibab al-Sood and in western of Majazah, while Saudi military bulldozer was destroyed, killing and injuring dozens.
In Jizan region, one mercenary was shot dead off al-Dood mount, while an artillery shelling targeted the Saudi army troops in al-Sawdah site in the same region
The Saudi campaign was launched in March 2015 in support of Yemen’s former Riyadh-friendly government and against Yemen's Houthi Ansarullah movement, which has been running state affairs in the absence of an effective administration. The offensive has, however, achieved neither of its goals despite the spending of billions of petrodollars and the enlisting of Saudi Arabia's regional and Western allies.
The protracted war, which has been accompanied by a naval and aerial blockade, has already killed over 14,000 Yemenis, with the United States and Britain providing the bulk of weapons used by Saudi forces and giving coordinates for the airstrikes.