RIYADH, Oct. 18 -- Two Saudi National Guard officers are dead after their helicopter crashed in the Najran region, and the explanation depends on who is speaking. The Saudi-led coalition says a technical malfunction brought the aircraft down. On Saturday, Yemen's Houthis claimed they had shot down a Saudi Apache helicopter near Najran's border region.

Maj. Gen. Turki Al-Maliki, spokesman for the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen, said on Sunday that the aircraft was an AH-6i reconnaissance helicopter belonging to the Ministry of National Guard and that it went down inside Saudi territory. The helicopter "crashed due to a technical malfunction, resulting in the martyrdom of its two-officer crew," he said in a statement on X. Earlie...