As Trump departs for Saudi Arabia, Al Jazeera English is reporting on air that Houthi rebels have fired a ballistic missile at the Saudi capital Riyadh. The report went on to state that the Saudi army said the missile was intercepted about 200Km from its target. AJ-E showed footage the rebels claim is of the rocket being fired.
The Saudi-led coalition said later it downed a Houthi missile in the southern Saudi province of Ar Rayn, well to the west of Riyadh. The area is open desert and there were no casualties, the official Saudi news agency SPA said.
Saudi Arabia has deployed Patriot missiles to counter such attacks.
Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV said the Arab coalition that intervened in Yemen's civil war against the Houthis in 2015 were "massively" bombing a missile base outside the Yemeni capital Sanaa, which is controlled by the Houthis.
The missile would be the longest range attempted by the Houthi rebels and their allies - former members of Yemen's security forces linked to ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh - since they began retaliatory attacks against the kingdom two years ago.