Yemeni Rebels Say They Struck Southwestern Saudi Arabia
Yahya Saree said the group fired dozens of ballistic missiles and drones at military sites, while Saudi Arabia said it intercepted six missiles.
- On Thursday, Saudi Arabia intercepted six ballistic missiles aimed at the Red Sea port of Yanbu and the southwestern city of Taif as fighting with Iran-backed Houthi rebels escalated.
- The fighting is the latest episode in 12 years of civil war in Yemen, which had largely been frozen since a 2022 truce before the Houthis seized the western coast nearly two weeks ago.
- Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said Thursday the group attacked Saudi military sites in Jazan, targeting what he described as "operations rooms, command and control centres, weapons depots."
- According to the United Nations, more than 700 people have been killed in the latest fighting, with nearly 130,000 Yemenis displaced and more than 3,000 fleeing by boat across the Red Sea to Africa.
- Civil defence authorities warned of potential danger in the northwestern province of Tabuk near Jordan—a first for the area—while Saudi Arabia builds crude volumes through its East-West pipeline, shut September 11.
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Saudi Arabia announced that it had intercepted a six-missile attack fired from Yemen on Thursday. The country promises a "strong response" to the pro-Iranian Houthis "terrorist militia".
Saudi Arabia says it intercepted 6 ballistic missiles, blames Houthi rebels
CAIRO — Six ballistic missiles targeting Saudi Arabia’s port of Yanbu on the Red Sea and the southwestern city of Taif have been intercepted, a Saudi military spokesperson said Thursday, blaming Iran-backed Houthi rebels in neighboring Yemen as fighting escalates.
Yemeni rebels have again attacked civilian and oil targets in Saudi Arabia; the Saudi-led military coalition said on Thursday that air defenses shot down six missiles that targeted Taif and the Yanbu area on the Red Sea coast.
Air defences have shot down six missiles in the Taif and Yanbu areas of the Red Sea, according to Ryad's coalition.
Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian assured that the Houthists were "responsible for their own actions" and "received no guidance" from Iran, while admitting contact with them.
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