SANAA, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- At least 20 Yemeni Houthi rebels were killed on Friday in airstrikes conducted by a Saudi-led coalition near the Saudi southern border region of Jazan, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television reported.
The targeted rebels, including a leader, were members of the "Death Battalion" rebels stationed in the far northwestern part of the Yemeni northern province of Hajjah near the Red Sea.
The Saudi TV channel said the operation, which also involved the Saudi artillery forces, was an "ambush" against the Houthi rebels.
The Friday's military attack was the latest in a series of Saudi-led operations targeting the Houthi rebels in the Saudi-Yemeni border fronts since the war in Yemen erupted in 2015.
There was no comment available from the Houthi group, which controls much of Yemen's north, including the capital Sanaa.
Saudi Arabia is leading an Arab military coalition that intervened in Yemen in March 2015 to support the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi after the Houthi rebels forced him into exile.
