Houthis Vow More Strikes on Saudi Oil and Airports
The Houthis declared Saudi airports and oil facilities legitimate targets, a day after a strike on Aramco’s Dhahran headquarters started a fire that sources say spread across several floors — more than the “limited fire” the energy ministry described. The coalition says it intercepted a ballistic missile aimed at Riyadh today. Sources say operations continue normally.
The war has widened from the Red Sea into the kingdom itself: Riyadh’s airport has been attacked four times, and Saturday’s strike there killed thirteen, the deadliest in Saudi Arabia in a decade. Iraq’s prime minister, Ali al-Zaidi, used his first visit to Riyadh to promise that Iraqi territory would not be a “launching pad” for attacks — pointed, since Baghdad’s own inquiry found last month’s drone strike on the East-West pipeline came from Iraq. Inside Yemen the cost is mounting. The World Food Programme says 800,000 people are cut off from food aid, 600,000 of them in encircled Taiz; its country director warns this “can rapidly spiral into a humanitarian catastrophe”.