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Three people were killed in two attacks on an Aramco oil field and an airport in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province Wednesday. The US State Department issued an ordered departure for non-emergency personnel and their families from the kingdom. The US move comes due to the growing threat from Houthi militants in neighboring Yemen. Abeer Abu Omar reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)
Yemen's government forces launched hundreds of strikes on Houthi locations, a spokesperson says.
A mass funeral has been held in southern Yemen for 75 recruits killed in a Houthi missile strike on a training camp.
Fifty-three people were killed and 200 were injured in an attack on Monday by the Iran-aligned Houthis on a government security forces training camp in Yemen’s Shabwa province, according to the local authority, as fighting in the impoverished country intensifies. Video verified by Reuters from Shabwa province showed injured people and bloodied bodies scattered across the ground. The Houthis and the internationally recognised government, which is backed by a Saudi-led coalition, have been...
Dozens of Yemenis are feared dead after a Houthi strike targeted a military camp in Yemen’s Shabwa governorate.
Gulf ministers urge action against Houthis as fighting displaces more than 233,000 people across Yemen.
Riyadh’s Kingdom Centre skyscraper ordered remote working for office tenants on Sunday following repeated Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, as the Saudi-led coalition said two pilots were killed in a crash near the Yemen border. The imposing, 99-storey landmark announced “mandatory” remote working until further notice. No reason was given for the order, but it comes a week after 13 people were killed in a major Houthi attack on Riyadh’s international airport. The Saudi coalition’s decade-plus war...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has vowed to take 'any measure' to defend Saudi Arabia amid Houthi attacks.
The Houthis launched a deadly missile attack on Thursday on the presidential palace in the Yemeni government’s interim capital of Aden, as Saudi Arabia blamed Iran for the recent dramatic escalation in the long-running war. Saudi Arabia and the internationally recognised government it backs in Yemen have come under sustained Houthi attack of late, shifting the focus of the wider Middle East war that erupted with US-Israeli strikes on Iran in February. The Iran-backed Houthis have seized swathes...
Yemen's information minister says the prime minister and other ministers were unhurt when ballistic missiles hit al-Maashiq Palace.
Saudi civil defence authority says danger passed after it issued alerts via its national early warning platform.
Aramco's headquarters in the eastern part of Saudi Arabia was hit by a Houthi missile attack. Authorities said the strike on Dhahran caused a limited fire and no injuries as fighting between the Iran-backed rebels in Yemen & Saudi-led coalition intensified. Rachel Ziemba founder of Ziemba Insights spoke to Bloomberg’s Abeer Abu Omar on Horizons Middle East and Africa on the likelihood of the US getting involved in the fighting. (Source: Bloomberg)
Government forces engage in intense clashes as Houthi shelling targets residential areas and hospitals in Taiz.
A Houthi official on Monday warned the US it would receive a “painful response” if it entered the war in Yemen, where Saudi Arabia has reportedly requested Washington’s help in dealing with the group as it weathers repeated attacks. Yemen’s civil war - in which a Saudi-led military coalition supports the government against the Iran-backed Houthis - reignited in July, months into the wider regional conflict that has roiled energy markets and plunged the Middle East into crisis. The Houthis...
Natasha Hall, associate fellow in the Middle East and North Africa program at Chatham House, said that the world hasn't yet come to terms with the 'asymmetric conflict' carried out by the Houthis as drone attacks overwhelm Saudi air defenses, including US manufactured Patriot interceptors. Hall said that without a diplomatic solution for conflicts around the region including in Iran and Gaza, it is likely conflict will continue to escalate. (Source: Bloomberg)
New footage shows a Houthi strike on Riyadh’s airport as Saudi Arabia reaffirms its resilience.
A new attack hit Riyadh's international airport on Sunday, a day after another attack on the airport killed at least 12 people and injured over 300. This was the deadliest on Saudi soil in over a decade. Fighting between the Iran-backed Houthis and Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces have been escalating for several weeks. Story by Juliette Brown and Caitlin Brown.
Saudi authorities say a Pakistani national was killed and several people injured in a second strike on Riyadh’s Airport.
CCTV footage released by Al Arabiya shows the moment of a Houthi strike on Riyadh’s international airport on Saturday.
A fresh Houthi strike hit Riyadh’s international airport on Sunday, a day after another attack claimed by the Yemeni group killed at least a dozen people and forced authorities to suspend operations at the facility. Saturday’s attack, the deadliest on Saudi soil in more than a decade, was a sharp escalation in the Yemen war, where Riyadh backs the internationally recognised government against the Houthis. The Iran-backed group on Sunday claimed multiple attacks over the past 24 hours, including...
Repeated Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia's King Khalid Airport reveal the limitations of even high-tech air defences.
A Houthi attack on Riyadh airport killed at least 12 people and injured more than 300.
A loud blast was heard at the airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Saturday, an eyewitness and people briefed on the matter said, amid an escalation of missile strikes on the kingdom by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group. The Saudi government’s media office and the Saudi civil aviation authority did not immediately respond to requests for comment. King Khalid International Airport urged passengers to contact their airlines directly and check their flight status before heading to the...
Houthi advances and the closure of vital roads into Taiz have triggered shortages, reviving memories of earlier siege.
Thursday's attacks on Riyadh airport killed three people, Saudi authorities said on Friday, as Yemen's Houthi group stepped up missile strikes on the kingdom and tried to shut down its airspace in an escalating war triggered by the US-Iran conflict. The strikes, which also injured several people, damaged a Saudia Airlines plane and sent smoke billowing over the airport, led many airlines to cancel flights to the Saudi capital days before it is due to host a major meeting of global oil chiefs.
The missile attacks come amid an escalation in fighting between the Iran-backed group and Saudi Arabia, which backs Yemen's government.
Bloomberg’s Stuart Livingstone-Wallace discusses escalating clashes between Houthi forces and the Saudi-led coalition around the Bab el-Mandeb strait. He explains how recent Houthi strikes on key Saudi targets mark a renewed security challenge that is pushing oil prices higher. (Source: Bloomberg)