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Houthis say they attacked Saudi oil pumping stations, Riyadh airport as fighting intensifies
The group said it hit pumping stations, an Aramco facility and Riyadh airport as fighting with Saudi Arabia intensifies.
- On Monday, Iran-aligned Houthis claimed attacks on Saudi Arabia's East-West crude oil pumping stations and Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport, as rising hostilities threaten to choke oil supplies.
- The Saudi-led coalition responded on Monday by destroying five tunnels used to store ballistic missiles in Yemen; spokesperson Turki al-Maliki pledged continued "deterrent operational measures" to protect civilians.
- Hostilities follow an attack earlier this month at King Khalid International Airport that killed 13 people, the deadliest in the kingdom in over a decade.
- Top officials from Mecca Pact countries—Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan—are meeting Iranian officials in Tehran on Monday to discuss regional coordination amid the escalating conflict.
- The fighting has effectively ended a UN-brokered truce held since 2022, as hostilities near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait threaten a key global shipping route for Gulf oil producers.
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Yemen's Houthis rebels announced on Monday, October 26, a new military offensive against Saudi Arabia, which included the launching of ballistic missiles against Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport and drone attacks on pumping stations in the strategic East-West pipeline, a vital infrastructure for the kingdom's oil exports. [...] The Hutíos entrance attacks Riyadh airport and Saudi strategic pipeline was first published in The Journalist.
Houthis rebels attacked the Riyadh airport and the East-West pipeline in Saudi Arabia, threatening the global supply of oil and closing the UN-mediated truce.
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