Fallout Spreads Across the Middle East as the Iran War Grinds On
The group said two drones hit the 400,000-barrel-a-day refinery, and Saudi officials reported a fire that was extinguished without injuries.
- On Thursday, Yemen's Houthis launched a two-drone attack against Saudi Aramco's 400,000-barrel-per-day Jazan refinery, marking their second claimed strike on the facility in five days.
- The Houthi-run Sabaa News Agency reported the operation was retaliation for 'Saudi violations of Yemeni airspace and sovereignty in Saada and Hajjah,' citing the kingdom's actions in those provinces.
- Saudi Arabia's Energy Ministry reported a fire was 'extinguished without injuries' following the August 9 attack, while one person familiar with the matter described the current damage as negligible.
- According to industry monitor IIR, Aramco has postponed the refinery's restart to August 30 due to the recent attacks, which follow the group's declared maritime embargo on Saudi Arabia.
- Kpler estimates that about 70% of Saudi west coast loadings in recent weeks have 'gone dark,' with cargo vessels switching off Automatic Identification System signals to mitigate attack risks.
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Fallout Spreads Across the Middle East as the Iran War Grinds On
Politics, Geopolitics & Conflict Yemen’s Houthis said they targeted Saudi Aramco’s Jazan refinery with two drones on Thursday, the second claimed attack on the Red Sea facility in less than a week and the third since July 25. Neither Saudi Arabia nor Aramco has confirmed the attack as of the time of writing. Bloomberg cited a person familiar with the incident as saying a storage tank sustained negligible damage. Last month, the Houthis threatene…
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eldiariodechihuahua.mxThe Hut is from Yemen attacked a refiner in southwestern Saudi Arabia, in another attack on the kingdom's energy infrastructure.
Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed responsibility on Thursday for a drone attack on an Aramco oil refinery in southern Saudi Arabia, the group's affiliated Saba news agency said.
Yemen clashes deepen as Houthi attacks revive civil war fears
Fresh clashes between Houthi rebels and Yemeni government forces continued in Taiz as the group also claimed a drone strike on a Saudi refinery. The flare-up has intensified fears of a return to full-scale war in Yemen amid wider regional turmoil.
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