Three killed, 36 injured in Houthi attacks on Saudi airports, Riyadh says
Saudi aviation authorities said the strikes damaged airport facilities and prompted emergency responses as the conflict spilled further across the border.
- On Tuesday and Wednesday, Houthi attacks on Abha International Airport and King Khalid International Airport killed three civilians and injured 36, the Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation reported.
- Fighting between Iran-aligned Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces intensified after the civil war re-erupted in July, prompting a counteroffensive to recapture strategic territory along the Red Sea.
- Separately, the Houthis targeted Aden International Airport with ballistic missiles and drones on Wednesday, forcing authorities to divert a Cairo flight as a missile landed near the runway.
- A Saudi-led coalition vowed retaliation, stating the attacks "will not go unpunished," and subsequently struck more than 80 Houthi military sites across Saada, Hodeidah, Jawf, and Marib.
- The conflict has displaced more than 200,000 people, with IOM Director General Amy Pope warning that many are "running for their lives and finding nowhere safe to go.
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(Johannesburg=Yonhap News) Correspondent Na Hak-jin = At King Khalid Airport in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, on the 8th (local time), suspected to be the work of the pro-Iranian Houthi rebels in Yemen...
Houthis attack Middle East airport as hundreds of flights cancelled and Saudis prepare to 'punish' terror group
Almost half of all scheduled departures from Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport were scrapped on Thursday as repeated Houthi missile and drone strikes threw Saudi Arabia's busiest aviation hub into chaos. Aviation analytics firm Cirium recorded 169 cancellations out of 378 planned departures, a rate of 44.7 per cent, while globally more than 330 flights connecting with the Saudi capital were axed, according to tracking data.The disruptio…
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The Yemeni rebels claimed three strikes at the Saudi capital airport on Thursday, an episode of unprecedented violence in eight months of war.
"Our armed forces have targeted this evening the King Khalid airport in Riad with two cruise missiles, the Najran airport with a ballistic missile, and the air base in Khamis Mushait with a ballistic missile, and the shots were accurate and direct, ... (ANSA)
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