GCC condemns Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia as Yemen fighting intensifies
Gulf ministers urge action against Houthis as fighting displaces more than 233,000 people across Yemen.
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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...
Analysts say that any move from Egypt will remain 'strictly defensive', as the conflict in Yemen intensifies.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has vowed to take 'any measure' to defend Saudi Arabia amid Houthi attacks.
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Several major sporting events in Saudi Arabia have been cancelled or postponed as a result of repeated deadly attacks from Iran-backed Houthi rebels against the Kingdom's airports and infrastructure. FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks with Guy Barton, Visiting Fellow at Lancaster University and co-creator and co-host of The FootPol Podcast.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have struck Riyadh’s King Khalid international airport 20 times since the start of October. A spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition said the attacks involved 10 drones, four ballistic missiles, four cruise missiles and two unidentified projectiles.
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...
To discuss the ongoing conflict between the Houthi rebels and the Saudi-backed coalition, we speak to Jules Grange Gastinel, a researcher at France's CNRS research body specialising in the Houthi movement. He tells us why the conflict has escalated and what the Houthis want.
Houthis attempt to raise the cost of the Yemen war for Saudi Arabia as attacks, fighting intensify.
Yemen's Houthis denied carrying out an attack on Saudi Arabia on Thursday, shortly after Riyadh said it had intercepted a missile targeting the region around the holy city of Medina.
Muslim pilgrims headed to Mecca for Umrah are facing travel disruptions as Houthi attacks hit Saudi Arabia.
What is the strategic logic behind the Houthis’ increasingly high-risk confrontation with Saudi Arabia? “Their experience in the past is that threats pay,” explains Dr. Elizabeth Kendall, Middle East specialist and President of Girton College, University of Cambridge. Dr. Kendall argues that the movement’s increasingly audacious military operations are not merely expressions of ideological hostility or Iranian influence, but calculated instruments of political coercion aimed at securing legitimacy, expanding territorial control and strengthening its negotiating leverage.
Yemen's Houthi rebels said Wednesday they had targeted facilities belonging to Saudi oil giant Aramco after officials in Riyadh reported a strike on a building in an area housing the energy giant's headquarters. The Iran-back militia also claimed missile strikes on the capital Riyadh and vowed to continue attacking Saudi airports and oil facilities.
Saudi Pro League postpones three matches after Houthi attacks, including one involving Cristiano Ronaldo's Al Nassr.
Iran-backed Houthis launched missile and drone attacks across Saudi Arabia, hitting oil giant Saudi Aramco’s headquarters, as well several cities in the kingdom. Abeer Abu Omar reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)
Saudi civil defence authority says danger passed after it issued alerts via its national early warning platform.
Saudi Arabia says it intercepted missiles targeting Riyadh and Dhahran, with falling debris injuring people.
A Saudi Aramco building has been hit in Dhahran, following Saudi-led coalition strikes on Houthi 'vital assets' in Yemen
Saudi Aramco’s headquarters in Dhahran in eastern Saudi Arabia was hit during a missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi militants on Tuesday that caused a fire in a part of the complex, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
The Houthis have warned Saudi Arabia that they will retaliate by targeting the Saudi cities of Riyadh and Dammam.
Houthi media reported an attack by Saudi Arabia on the Yemen Oil Company in Sanaa on Tuesday, which came shortly after the Saudi-led coalition ordered the evacuation of the facility ahead of a military operation. The Iran-backed rebels had warned that they would target Riyadh's airport and other sites in the country if Saudi Arabia followed through on its threat.
France's embassy in Saudi Arabia told its citizens to avoid the airports in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam on Tuesday as fighting escalates between a Saudi-led coalition and Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who have been attacking Saudi airports and oil facilities since last week.
Chinese-Pakistani fighter jets and a China-made air-defence system reportedly deployed to Saudi Arabia could be brought into action following Pakistan’s renewed pledge to defend the kingdom after deadly Houthi attacks on Riyadh. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Sunday that Islamabad would cooperate with Riyadh “in every possible way” under their defence agreements, after Houthi strikes on the Saudi capital’s main airport the previous day killed at least 13 people and wounded...
A selloff in chipmakers drag US equity futures down ahead of bank earnings. Saudi Arabia intercepted more ballistic missiles launched by Yemen's Houthis, targeting Riyadh and Khamis Mushait. Nandan Nilekani of Infosys speaks exclusively with Bloomberg's Shery Ahn at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in New Delhi. Seema Shah of Principal Asset Management joins "Bloomberg Brief" to look ahead to bank earnings. (Source: Bloomberg)
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...
The Tigray conflict puts the UAE’s backing of Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia’s diplomatic role under scrutiny.
US President Trump condemns Yemen's Houthis over escalating attacks, as Saudi Arabia halts flights at Riyadh airport.
Saudi Arabia says it intercepted a ballistic missile fired towards Riyadh, as Houthis say they targeted the airport.
After four years of relative calm, the war pitting Yemen’s Houthi militia against the country’s internationally recognized government and its backer Saudi Arabia is back on. Announcing the start of a full-scale military campaign against the Houthis, the Saudi-led force said on social media on October 4th that the goal is to “eliminate” the group. Bloomberg's Veena Ali-Khan examines why the Houthis are so hard to defeat. She speaks with hosts Businessweek Daily hosts Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. (Source: Bloomberg)