The Media Line: Houthis Claim Strikes on Riyadh Airport, Aramco Refinery as Yemen Fighting Escalates  

Houthis Claim Strikes on Riyadh Airport, Aramco Refinery as Yemen Fighting Escalates  

By The Media Line Staff  

Iran-backed Houthis said Monday they struck King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, an Aramco refinery and other targets across Saudi Arabia with drones and missiles as fighting intensified between the group and Saudi-backed Yemeni forces.  

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the attacks involved ballistic and cruise missiles as well as drones and “targeted King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh.” He said “the Aramco refinery in Rabigh” was also hit, along with military installations and smaller airports in southern Saudi Arabia.  

Explosions were reported in Riyadh on Monday evening.  

The attacks came as Yemen’s Saudi-backed military carried out 1,000 strikes and began an offensive against the Houthi-held capital, Sanaa. The Saudi-led coalition supporting Yemen’s internationally recognized government said 100 warplanes flew sorties at dawn and reported destroying Houthi targets along the Red Sea coast.  

A Saudi energy sector source told AFP that an attack Sunday again halted pumping through the East-West pipeline to the Red Sea. The pipeline has become a key route for Saudi oil exports since Iran blockaded the Strait of Hormuz at the beginning of the wider Middle East war.  

Oil prices had already risen sharply because of the broader conflict before the Houthis began attacking infrastructure belonging to Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter.  

Saudi Aramco Chief Executive Amin Nasser warned Monday that global oil inventories were “scarily thin” because of the war.  

“The system is already straining,” Nasser told the Energy Intelligence Forum in London.  

Yemeni military sources said pro-government forces had severed the only supply route to the Houthi-held city of Mokha on Monday but did not confirm an official announcement that the port had been recaptured.  

The latest fighting follows the collapse of a ceasefire that had been in place since 2022. Hostilities resumed in July after the Houthis accused Saudi-backed forces of striking Sanaa’s airport to prevent an Iranian plane from landing. The Houthis subsequently declared a maritime embargo and began retaliatory drone and missile attacks on Saudi infrastructure. 

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