Saudi-led coalition says 2 pilots killed in helicopter crash near Yemen

The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis on Sunday said two pilots were killed when their helicopter crashed near the Yemen border, after the group claimed it shot the aircraft down. The coalition blamed a “technical malfunction” for the incident, which inflicted its first military fatalities since the long-running conflict with the Houthis reignited in July. The incident comes a week after strikes by the Houthis killed 13 people at Riyadh’s international airport, the deadliest attack in Saudi Arabia in more than a decade. “An AH-6i reconnaissance helicopter belonging to the Ministry of…