Analysis: How much firepower do Yemen’s Houthis still possess?

LONDON: On Dec. 18, 2009, Houthi fighters in northern Yemen fired several artillery rockets across the border into Saudi Arabia.

No casualties were recorded in what may have been the group’s first cross-border projectile attack on the Kingdom. Yet 17 years later, that strike stands as the opening salvo in a campaign of intermittent bombardment that has claimed hundreds of innocent lives.

Over that time, the sophistication and lethality of the Houthi missile arsenal have grown exponentially. Events over the past four months show the militia now holds a large stockpile of long-range drones and missiles capable of striking targets across Saudi Arabia.