Theme: Houthis

Saudi-led coalition attacks over the past 24 hours reportedly killed around 20 people across Yemen, including in the provinces of al-Jawf, al-Bayda, Saada and Taiz, according to Houthi-affiliated media.

A Yemeni government military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that 13 military recruits were killed and 65 others wounded in a ballistic missile attack on a military training center in Qatabah district, northern Al-Dhalea, in southern Yemen, during morning exercises, and blamed the attack on the Houthis. A ballistic missile hit Hayfan in Taiz governorate and killed four Yemenis from the same family, including three children, on Wednesday, according to Middle East Eye. Houthi-run al-Masirah TV blamed the killing of three children and a woman, with four other children wounded in the same district, on a Saudi airstrike. On November 3, Yemeni Interior Minister Ibrahim Ali Haidan accused Hezbollah and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of sending military instructors to command Houthi combat operations, develop missile and drone programs and coordinate attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, according to TASS. Hezbollah denied the allegations and said the Yemeni authorities' statements about support for the Houthi offensive, military training and rearmament are “completely baseless”, adding that “the Yemeni people have sufficient capabilities, resources, and experience to defend their country without external support.”

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree announced three operations inside Saudi Arabia on Wednesday morning: the first with a drone against a radar facility on the Al-Qahmah Peninsula in the north of Jizan, in southern Saudi Arabia, the second with a ballistic missile against the Aqefa garrison in Najran, and the third against the border guard command and control building in Jizan, which resulted in deaths among Saudi soldiers and officers, according to the group.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delivered four trucks of essential medical supplies to hospitals in Taiz, including surgical kits to treat weapon-wounded patients, in the committee's first delivery of medical supplies to the city since September 23. The Houthis have encircled Taiz since early October and are blocking the road linking the city to Aden, the interim seat of the internationally recognized government. UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said roads are closed, water production has halved and food prices have risen by at least 50%.

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the group’s forces carried out a ballistic missile strike on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and that the target was hit, in a statement carried by the Houthi-controlled SABA news agency. Saree urged international airlines, their employees and passengers to avoid Saudi airspace. Saudi authorities had not confirmed the attack or any damage. In the early hours of Wednesday, Saudi Civil Defense issued a warning about a potential hazard in the Riyadh region and later declared it over, and the Indian embassy announced the death of an Indian citizen wounded in the October 10 attack on the airport.

The Houthi siege on Taiz has now lasted 30 days and has affected the 1.5 million people living in Taiz City, plus about 180,000 displaced people trapped by ongoing clashes along the main road connecting Lahj and Taiz, according to Al Jazeera. The blockade began with the seizure of al-Turbah, a town in the far southwest of the governorate, cutting the city’s main artery to Aden and the outside world. The United Nations (UN) has repeatedly warned of a catastrophe inside the city, where supplies of food and medicine are becoming increasingly scarce. According to Reuters, in a report republished by The Jerusalem Post, the advance brings the Houthis closer to Aden than at any point since the early months of the war in 2015.

The Saudi-led coalition launched four air strikes on the city of al-Bayda in central Yemen, according to Houthi-affiliated media. Shelling was also reported in the Ghamr district of the Saada governorate.

The United States embassy in Riyadh restated the warning about hostilities by the Iranian-supported Houthis against Saudi Arabia — including attacks on civilian airports and critical infrastructure, causing civilian casualties and severe travel disruption — and about the State Department order, in effect since October 23, 2026, for non-emergency employees and family members to leave the country, plus the requirement of special authorization from the chief of mission for American employees to use any airport in the kingdom after the recent missile and drone attacks.

The Saudi-led coalition said on Tuesday it had intercepted three drones targeting Saudi territory, one of them over the western Mecca region. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said the group launched two attacks in the Asir region, targeting Abha International Airport with a drone and King Khalid Air Base in Khamis Mushait with a ballistic missile. Two other drones, one in the Eastern Province and another heading toward the southern region, were intercepted and destroyed, according to coalition spokesman Turki Al-Maliki. The casualty and damage figures in the Houthi claims could not be independently verified.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthis says it intercepted a drone in the Mecca region, home to Islam’s holiest city, while the Houthis reported 17 people killed in Yemen over two days, according to The Hindu. Saudi Arabia has accused the Houthis several times of targeting Mecca and Medina, accusations the group systematically rejects.

The Houthis have launched multiple cross-border raids into Saudi Arabia in recent months, according to a Western official and an Arab official with direct knowledge of the raids. The raids are small in scale and have hit border posts in the kingdom’s rugged, mountainous southwest. The 2027 Asian Cup in Saudi Arabia has been postponed by almost a year, and the tournament is now scheduled from December 23, 2027, to January 21, 2028, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) announced on Tuesday. Yemen’s government army said it had carried out 1,208 military operations against Houthi positions and claimed to have “neutralized” around 370 commanders and militants.

Fighting between the Houthis and Yemeni government forces is concentrated around Taiz, in the country’s southwest, and the Houthis have largely blocked the delivery of goods to the city, which is under the control of government forces. Yemeni authorities have warned civilians about sniper fire from the surrounding hillsides. The International Organization for Migration said fighting had displaced around 134,000 people in Taiz governorate, almost half of the more than 319,000 displaced across western Yemen, in figures dated November 1. Niku Jafarnia, Yemen researcher at Human Rights Watch, said the Houthis had blocked fuel, water and medical supplies, “basically all things required for hospitals to function properly”. The latest WHO Health Cluster situation report records at least 1,677 people killed and 7,395 injured in Yemen as of October 25.

Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the group’s armed forces carried out three operations in 48 hours, hitting Dammam airport in two phases with two drones. According to Saree, the operation disrupted air traffic at Dammam and a drone scored a direct hit on the early warning radar in Jizan. There was no immediate confirmation from Saudi authorities regarding the attacks or the damage claimed by the Houthis.

Aramco posted net profit of 135.9 billion riyals (about 32.3 billion euros) in the third quarter, compared with around 101 billion riyals (24 billion euros) in the same period a year earlier, a result that included a 25.9 billion riyal gain from selling its stake in the PRefChem joint venture to Malaysia’s Petronas, while the Iranian-backed Houthis have regularly attacked Saudi tankers, pipelines, storage facilities and refineries since hostilities resumed in July. Adjusted net income stood at US$ 31.2 billion, up from US$ 28.6 billion a year earlier, above the median analyst estimate of US$ 30.66 billion; downstream posted adjusted earnings before interest and taxes of US$ 10.3 billion, up 234% in a year on stronger refining margins, and the board approved a base dividend of US$ 21.9 billion, up 3.5% in a year. Chief executive Amin Nasser said geopolitical uncertainty and attacks on energy facilities kept amplifying the global supply crisis in the quarter, with serious implications for energy security.

The 2027 Asian Cup in Saudi Arabia was postponed because of the conflict in the Middle East, in a decision justified by the exceptional circumstances in the region, with logistical complexities and travel disruptions, according to the AFC organizing committee. The tournament, scheduled for January 7 to February 5, 2027, moves to December 23, 2027 to January 21, 2028, and other events in the country were canceled, among them the Six Kings Slam tennis exhibition in Riyadh. In October, a missile attack by Yemen’s Houthis against Riyadh airport killed 13 people and wounded more than 300.

Yemen’s Houthi-run Health Ministry said at least 17 Yemeni civilians were killed and 59 wounded, most of them children, in Saudi airstrikes over the past 24 hours. The Houthis on Tuesday reported an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition on a shoe factory in Taiz province that the group said killed three people and wounded eight others.

Forces of Yemen’s internationally recognized government carried out air strikes against Houthi positions west of Taiz, while Houthi-affiliated media reported that a strike north of Taiz hit a plastic shoe factory, killing three people and injuring eight.

The US embassy in Saudi Arabia issued a security alert for American citizens over possible attacks on airports, airspace closures and flight disruptions, amid escalation involving the Houthis and Saudi Arabia, according to the Hindustan Times, while the State Department ordered non-emergency staff and family members to leave Saudi Arabia as of October 23, 2026 over safety risks.

Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman said Monday that he spoke by phone with US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about bilateral defense cooperation and efforts to de-escalate regional tensions. In the account he posted on X, the minister said the call covered “the continued Houthi terrorist attacks against the Kingdom.”

The Houthis launched multiple cross-border raids against Saudi military posts in recent months, expanding the conflict beyond Yemen, according to a Western and Arab official with direct knowledge of the raids, who spoke to Middle East Eye. The Ansar Allah movement claimed drone and missile attacks on Saudi Arabia, including a military base just over the border with Yemen.

The EU strongly condemned the Houthis' escalation in Yemen and their attacks on Saudi Arabia, particularly those targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure. The Houthis targeted Dammam Airport in two phases with two drones over the past 48 hours, according to military spokesman Yahya Saree. There was no confirmation from Saudi Arabia of damage or casualties at the airport at the time of publication.

Yemen's Houthis from the Ansar Allah movement said they had carried out drone strikes on airports in the eastern Saudi city of Dammam and the southern city of Jazan. Houthi military spokesperson Yahia Saria said the rebels struck an early warning radar in Jazan and a military transport aircraft at the city's airport.

A missile strike hit the Al-Suqya health center in the Al-Mudaribah and Al-Arah districts of Lahj province, southwestern Yemen, on Monday, according to state media. At least 20 civilians were killed or wounded in the attack that state media attribute to Houthi militia, without breaking the count down into dead and wounded.

The United Nations (UN) demands a thorough investigation into the death of Mohammad el-Shami, of the UN Human Rights Office, while in Houthi detention in Yemen — dead for more than a month, with his family only recently notified, after arbitrary detention since June 2024 — and Secretary-General António Guterres said he was dismayed and demanded the immediate release of all detained personnel, according to Al Jazeera.

The Saudi-led coalition intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis toward southern Saudi Arabia, spokesperson Maj. Gen. Turki al Maliki said on Monday. The coalitionʼs air defenses destroyed the missile on its way to the southern region.

A tanker sailing through the Gulf was hit by two unidentified projectiles on its port side, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency, cited by Middle East Eye. In parallel, Houthi media, citing an anonymous military official, repeated threats against Saudi oil giant Aramco and aviation in the kingdom, according to the Straits Times.

At least seven people were wounded in aerial attacks by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen’s Hodeidah governorate, according to Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV, cited by Middle East Eye.

Mohammad el Shami, a staff member of the UN human rights office in Yemen, had been arbitrarily detained by the Houthi de facto authorities since June 6, 2024, and his family says he died more than a month ago, having been told only recently, UN News reported. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on the Houthis to disclose all relevant medical and detention records and demanded independent scrutiny of any stated cause of death. Yemen’s prime minister condemned the death, held the Houthis fully responsible and called for those responsible to be held accountable; he said more than 70 UN employees and dozens of humanitarian workers remained detained. Yemen’s foreign minister also demanded accountability for the death of the UN worker in Houthi custody, Middle East Eye reported.

The United Nations demanded an investigation into the death of Mohammad el-Shami, a staff member of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Yemen, in Houthi custody. El-Shami died more than a month ago, and his family was only recently informed, the UN said in a statement on Saturday, according to Al Jazeera. High Commissioner Volker Türk demanded “full transparency” from the Houthi authorities and an “urgent, independent and thorough investigation”, and said the family “deserves to know the truth”. El-Shami had been arbitrarily held since June 2024, when he and more than 60 people working with the UN and other NGOs were detained and accused of being part of an “American-Israeli spy network”. Türk said seven other OHCHR staff detained alongside him remain in custody and called for their immediate and unconditional release.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said he was “appalled” by the death of UN staff member Mohammad el-Shami in Houthi custody in Yemen, according to Middle East Eye.

The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, demanded an independent investigation into the death in Houthi custody of a Yemeni staff member of the UN office in Yemen and called for full transparency from the group's authorities. Mohammad el Shami had been arbitrarily detained since June 6, 2024 and, according to Türk, his family was informed of the death only recently, more than a month after it occurred, with no explanation of the cause or circumstances. Türk also demanded the immediate and unconditional release of other detained UN personnel, including seven colleagues from his office.

Riyadh Air evacuated all aircraft from its home base and halted almost all flying for two weeks after Houthi attacks, according to the Jerusalem Post. Remaining flights began landing in Jeddah or at a small airport 200 miles from Riyadh. A Houthi attack on October 8 killed a Saudia pilot and destroyed an aircraft.

The Saudi-led coalition said on Saturday it had intercepted and destroyed a hostile drone launched by the Houthi group over the “Riyadh region”, Middle East Eye reported. On Friday, the Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen said it had intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched toward the kingdom’s southern region, as well as a drone over Riyadh, according to Arab News.

The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said it intercepted a drone launched by the Houthis toward Saudi Arabia’s Mecca region, according to Al Jazeera. A Houthi spokesperson denied targeting the Muslim holy city or the surrounding region, reiterating that the group’s cross-border attacks remain focused on Saudi energy and military infrastructure. Middle East Eye reported the coalition’s accounts of drones over Mecca and Medina, which the Houthis denied.

A spokesperson for the Yemeni government’s armed forces said on Friday that the Houthis had attacked Aden airport and the Maashiq presidential palace complex, according to Middle East Eye. A police official told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that the Houthis had targeted the presidential palace with two missiles, Middle East Eye reported.

The United States ordered non-emergency government employees and their family members to leave Saudi Arabia, effective October 23, citing security risks, according to The Jerusalem Post. The order cites Houthi attacks on civilian airports and other critical infrastructure.

The Saudi-led coalition said on Friday it had intercepted and destroyed a drone near Riyadh as well as a missile fired by Yemen's Houthis toward Saudi Arabia's southern region, according to Middle East Eye. Earlier on Friday, the coalition said it had intercepted a Houthi drone in the Mecca region, with the group denying it targeted Islam's holiest city.

Al-Ain media in the United Arab Emirates reported that dozens of government troops and Houthis were killed and wounded on Friday in fierce battles in Al-Maqatra district of Lahj, following a large-scale attack by the Houthis, according to the Jerusalem Post, which cited the outlet.

Hussein al-Ezzi, a member of the political bureau of the Ansarullah movement, said resolving the conflict with Saudi Arabia requires stopping the aggression, lifting the siege and paying compensation, according to Mehr News. He said the confrontation would continue without the three conditions being met.

Saudi Arabia said on Friday it had intercepted and destroyed a drone launched by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels near Mecca, Islam's holiest city, a claim the Houthis deny. Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree dismissed the coalition's account as false in a post on X, saying the group had not carried out any operation against Saudi territory and that its operations target Saudi oil facilities and military bases, according to Reuters.

Houthi spokesperson Yahya Saree said six attacks hit vital commercial and military infrastructure from Saudi Arabia's east coast to its west coast, reaching Riyadh and the southern region of Najran, in a statement posted on X, according to Al Jazeera. The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted and destroyed a drone launched by the Houthis in the Mecca region, according to the Times of Israel. The Houthis deny targeting Mecca and Medina and have rejected previous coalition accusations that they launched drones towards the two holy cities of Islam, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Brent rose 0.75% to $115.74 a barrel and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) rose 0.71% to $102.72 after the Houthis said on Thursday they had attacked Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia’s largest oil refinery, the Rabigh refinery and an Aramco facility in Abqaiq, according to Reuters, in a text republished by CNBC.

The Houthis said Thursday they had attacked Saudi Arabia's Ras Tanura refinery, the largest in the kingdom; the Rabigh refinery; an Aramco facility in Abqaiq; and King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, according to the Jerusalem Post. There was no immediate confirmation from Saudi authorities. The Saudi-led coalition said it had intercepted two ballistic missiles launched toward the capital, after AFP correspondents heard at least eight explosions in Riyadh, and the Houthi-run health ministry reported 12 killed and three critically injured in attacks it attributes to Saudi Arabia on residential areas in western Yemen.

The Saudi-led coalition says its air defenses intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles fired by the Houthis towards Riyadh, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), in a report by the Middle East Eye.

Taiz Governor Nabil Shamsan said at a briefing that the city “is in famine, not on the brink of it”, while local officials say a siege by Houthi rebels has pushed residents into famine. A Saudi airstrike in western Taiz killed at least 13 people on Thursday, according to the Houthi-run health ministry. The World Food Program said it cannot reach over 600,000 people in the city who depend on humanitarian aid, and that wheat flour stocks are nearly exhausted.

Fighting has escalated on several fronts south of Taiz, in southwestern Yemen, with media affiliated with government forces reporting a surge in hostilities with the Houthis, according to Al Jazeera. More than 281,000 people have fled their homes in Yemen since the beginning of August, according to the UN humanitarian agency cited by the broadcaster.

The Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed a ballistic missile fired by the Houthis from Yemen towards the kingdom's eastern region early on Thursday, according to the Jerusalem Post. Saudi Arabia's Civil Defense issued two alerts warning of potential danger in Najran and in the Eastern Province, before saying minutes later that the danger had passed in both areas. On the previous Saturday, the Civil Defense said it had intercepted two Houthi missiles launched toward the Mecca and Medina regions, with debris falling in Jeddah, Taif and Rabigh.

Yemen's Houthi armed forces called for the immediate evacuation of Aden airport, citing the presence of a Saudi military cargo plane they said was carrying weapons, in a statement carried by Mehr News. A Houthi missile later hit “the area under the control of Saudi forces inside the perimeter of Aden airport”, according to a police officer cited by AFP in a G1 report. Al-Masirah, a TV channel linked to the Houthis, said a Saudi strike on Hazm, the capital of Al-Jawf province, killed 16 people and wounded 10, including women and children.

A private geospatial intelligence firm said it examined 40 missile and drone attacks against Saudi Arabia, attributed to Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen and militias in Iraq, between July 1 and October 19, according to the Associated Press (AP). Nawaf Obaid, founder of AURORAH Geosignal Intelligence, said there is a “100% match” between the satellites’ activity and the strikes. Three officials, including one from Saudi Arabia and another in the top ranks of the Houthis, as well as a private intelligence analyst, told AP that the Houthis and other Iranian allies have benefited from Russian intelligence.

Saudi Arabia reportedly offered a $1 billion financial package to the Houthis in an Iran-brokered deal to secure a ceasefire and halt attacks on the kingdom, according to the Hindustan Times, citing a report. The proposal was reportedly discussed during a surprise visit by Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman to Tehran, where Iran offered to act as a regional diplomatic mediator, according to NDTV.

Houthi official Mohammed Ali al-Houthi said Tuesday that the Egyptian parliament's decision to authorize military support for Saudi Arabia to defend against the group's attacks amounted to a declaration of war, according to Channel News Asia. The comment was part of a statement reacting to a Monday visit to Tehran by the Saudi defense minister, alongside Pakistan's army chief and Türkiye's intelligence chief, in a bid to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East war.

The Houthis said on Tuesday they had struck Saudi Arabia’s Ras Tanura refinery, the kingdom’s largest, with a ballistic missile, while Bloomberg reported, citing a source familiar with the matter, that the kingdom contained a fire near the Ras Tanura terminal earlier that day, according to the Middle East Eye. The group’s military spokesman, Yahya Saree, said the attack caused “massive fires”, and a Houthi official said the Egyptian parliament’s authorization of defensive military support for Saudi Arabia amounted to a declaration of war. The Houthis also said they had attacked Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry in Riyadh, with no confirmation from Saudi Arabia, according to the Hindustan Times, which cited Reuters.

The Saudi-led coalition said its air defences destroyed four Houthi drones targeting the kingdom’s southern region, according to Middle East Eye. The coalition also said it intercepted and destroyed 10 ballistic missiles launched towards the same region, according to The National.

The Saudi-led coalition said on Monday that three drones were intercepted and destroyed over the Riyadh region and southern regions, according to Middle East Eye. The coalition also said it intercepted a ballistic missile fired by Yemen's Houthis, after the group claimed a new attack on Riyadh airport, The Hindu reported.

Egypt’s Parliament authorized the military on Monday to provide support to help defend Saudi Arabia, if requested, according to Reuters, citing parliamentarians and local media. The decision responds to intensified attacks by Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthis on the Gulf kingdom. Parliament gave President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi the green light to take the steps necessary to defend Saudi Arabia, according to Bloomberg.

The Houthis said on Monday they had attacked pumping stations along Saudi Arabia's East-West onshore oil pipeline, the kingdom's key crude export route that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz, according to OilPrice. As of early Monday, Saudi Arabia had not confirmed any attacks on the pipeline, which was down for two weeks in September after drone attacks damaged pumping stations.

King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh partially reopened on Sunday after two weeks of closure, as the Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition continued to exchange attacks, according to the Xinhua news agency. The Houthis said they had launched dozens of ballistic missiles in three attacks against the kingdom, the first of them targeting King Khalid airport.

Yemen's Houthis said on Sunday they had launched a fresh strike on Saudi Arabia's international airport in the capital Riyadh, hours after the kingdom announced that flights had resumed, Middle East Eye reported. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said on X that the group had “conducted three military operations with dozens of ballistic missiles” and that the strike on the airport “achieved its target”. The claim comes from the group itself.

Saudi Civil Defence said that shrapnel from two intercepted ballistic missiles, suspected to have been fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, fell in Jeddah, Taif, Rabigh and Wadi Al-Mughammas in Mecca province, according to Al Jazeera.

The Saudi-led coalition said on Sunday it had intercepted 10 ballistic missiles fired by the Houthis towards the country's southern region. The coalition said two drones and a ballistic missile were launched towards Riyadh, and a cruise missile towards the southern city of Khamis Mushait. Late on Saturday, Riyadh's airport said Terminal 1 would be designated for domestic flights and Terminal 2 for international flights operated by national carriers starting Sunday.

The Saudi-led coalition intercepted and destroyed a second drone in the Riyadh region, spokesman Major-General Turki al-Maliki said in a post on X. The coalition also said it intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis towards Riyadh.

The Houthis said they targeted three Saudi airports, including the international airport in Riyadh, as well as energy installations, a pipeline and an air base over the past 24 hours, in a new round of attacks on Saudi Arabia on Saturday, according to Le Monde. The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted two missiles targeting Taif and Yanbu on Saturday morning, while Saudi civil defence responded to debris in the Mecca and Medina regions. The Houthi broadcaster Al-Masirah said strikes by the kingdom in Yemen killed four people at a house in Sanaa, eight at a residential building for cement factory workers and five from the same family outside Hodeida.

Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport said on Saturday that flights would resume on Sunday, October 25, after a two-week closure caused by Houthi attacks, according to Middle East Eye. Terminal 1 will be designated for domestic flights and Terminal 2 for international flights operated by national carriers. The closure followed a missile attack that killed 13 people and wounded more than 300 on October 10, according to Arab News.

Houthi spokesperson Yahya Saree said the group carried out seven operations with ballistic missiles and drones, according to TASS, and that the targets included King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, an Aramco facility in Yanbu, the Rabigh oil refinery, crude oil pumping stations and the East-West Pipeline, according to France 24. The Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed two ballistic missiles fired towards Yanbu and Taif on Saturday. There was no immediate confirmation from Saudi authorities on the Houthi reports, and it was not immediately clear whether the attacks had hit their targets or been intercepted.

The Houthis said on Saturday they attacked Aden, the interim seat of the Saudi-backed government, with military spokesman Yahya Saree saying the targets were what he called “Saudi enemy” concentrations at the Al-Nasr camp and the city’s naval base. Earlier, the Saudi-led coalition said it had intercepted two missiles targeting Taif and Yanbu in the kingdom’s west. According to the Houthis, a separate strike on a residential building for cement factory workers in the Sanaa governorate killed six women and one child and wounded three other people. The US updated travel advisories for the Gulf and the wider Middle East, citing what it described as the threat of “regional aggression” by Iran-aligned Houthis.

Yemen's Houthis reported that Saudi air strikes on Sanaa and the capital region they control killed at least four people and wounded several others on Saturday, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). Al-Masirah, a broadcaster affiliated with the group, also reported deaths and injuries in the Yemeni capital, according to G1. Saudi Arabia's Civil Defense issued alerts about possible risks to residents of Taif and Yanbu, as well as Mecca and Jeddah, the country's second-largest city, and about 10 minutes later said the threat had passed.

A Saudi airstrike on a house in the Asr neighbourhood of western Sanaa killed three people and wounded others on Saturday, according to the Houthi-linked Al-Masirah broadcaster. The station said that “the Saudi enemy” targeted the house and that the toll is preliminary.

The Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed two ballistic missiles fired by the Houthis towards Taif and Yanbu on Saturday, according to Middle East Eye. Saudi Arabia’s Civil Defense briefly issued alerts warning of potential danger in Taif, Yanbu, the holy city of Mecca and Jeddah, according to the same report.

A dialysis center in Taiz has cut sessions from four hours to two and a half because of the siege and the shortage of diesel and medical solutions, Dahan told Al Jazeera. In an October 12 statement, the governorate’s health office warned that the continued siege and the obstruction of essential supplies could endanger the lives of 1,110 patients with kidney failure.

Turkey, Egypt, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia condemned the Houthi attacks on the kingdom, including strikes against civilians, infrastructure and commercial vessels in the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, according to TASS. The four countries called on the Houthis to immediately cease all military actions, threats and attacks and return to the political process. They also said the Israeli occupation is the main source of instability in the region and beyond.

The UN warned on Friday that time is running out to get aid into Taiz, besieged by Houthi fighters who are preventing supplies from reaching Yemen’s third-largest city, it said, according to the Middle East Eye. Houthi fighters have encircled Taiz since early October and blocked the road that links it to Aden, the interim capital of Yemen’s internationally recognised government. Road closures and diesel shortages have halved the city’s water production and roughly tripled the price of trucked water, which most residents depend on, Laerke said.

The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted and destroyed ballistic missiles launched by Yemen’s Houthis towards Riyadh, according to the Middle East Eye. Saudi civil defence issued alerts in Riyadh and later Najran before announcing that the danger had passed, also according to the Middle East Eye. The coalition also said its forces shot down a Houthi ballistic missile fired toward the southern Saudi city of Najran, according to the Times of Israel.

The US State Department ordered on Wednesday (10/21) the departure of non-essential government employees and their families from US diplomatic missions in Saudi Arabia, according to Opera Mundi. State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott justified the move by saying the Houthis had intensified hostilities against Riyadh, including attacks on civilian airports and other critical infrastructure that caused casualties and disrupted air travel.

An Israeli defense official confirmed on Thursday that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) intelligence continues to provide Saudi Arabia with exceptional capabilities to assist its military operations against the Houthis, through US mediation, the Jerusalem Post reported. According to the official, the assistance is provided in line with Israel’s national interests and directives from the political leadership, and serves to wear down an enemy that plans to attack Israel in the future.

Brent rose US$ 3.35 (3.08%) to US$ 112.17 a barrel on Thursday, the highest level since May 18, while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) gained US$ 2.68 (2.76%) to US$ 99.83 a barrel, according to Reuters. The Hindustan Times attributes the rise to Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, tensions in the Strait of Hormuz and disruptions to oil supply.

Residents of Taiz in Yemen are facing severe food and water shortages after a Houthi blockade cut off a key supply route, according to Al Jazeera. The UN warns that aid can no longer reach the city, leaving an estimated 800,000 people without life-saving assistance.

The Iran-aligned Houthis said on Thursday they had attacked Saudi Arabia’s Defence Ministry in Riyadh, Saudi Aramco facilities in Yanbu and King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, according to The Hindu. Saudi state oil company Aramco told staff to evacuate its headquarters in Dhahran, on the Gulf, and to work remotely, Reuters reported, citing six people with knowledge of the matter, in a text republished by the Jerusalem Post. The instruction follows a wave of Houthi attacks on the kingdom, targeting the company and Saudi airports.

Houthi rebels struck a residential area in Taiz, Yemen’s third-largest city, which is under attack and siege, on Tuesday, killing two teenage girls, the Associated Press (AP) reported in a text republished by PBS News. The UN human rights chief said civilians in Taiz are at grave risk and that humanitarian aid “must be immediately allowed to enter the city” with its passage facilitated, and that civilians wishing to leave must be allowed to do so “freely and safely”. The strike on Taiz came a day after a Houthi attack on a government military camp killed 73 recruits, the deadliest since the conflict’s resurgence over the summer, according to a senior Yemeni government official.

The US State Department ordered the departure of “non-emergency US government employees and their family members in Saudi Arabia only” amid attacks by the Iran-aligned Houthis on civilian targets in the country, according to spokesman Tommy Pigott. US officials told Reuters, in reporting cited by the South China Morning Post (SCMP), that the department also plans to withdraw family members from a number of other US missions in the region.

The State Department is preparing to order some employees and their family members to leave American embassies in the Gulf region, according to Reuters, in a report republished by G1. Two officials told the agency that the measure responds to the possibility of renewed conflict in the region, with concern focused on attacks by Yemen's Houthis, who are aligned with Iran.

French President Emmanuel Macron made a surprise “solidarity” visit to Riyadh and became the first Western leader to land in Saudi Arabia since the Houthis intensified their attacks this month, Al Jazeera reported. The trip comes as Saudi Arabia agreed to supply extra diesel to France “for as many months as necessary”, the Elysee Palace told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Wednesday.

Three strikes hit the runway and the electricity administration facilities at Al-Rayyan International Airport in Mukalla, in Yemen’s eastern Hadramout province, on Wednesday, with no injuries reported, according to state-run Hadramout TV, cited by TRT World. The channel broadcast footage it said showed the attack but did not specify the weapons used, and the Houthi militia had not claimed the episode as of publication, according to TRT World. Separately, state-run Saba reported that the Houthi militia had targeted Aden International Airport with a ballistic missile, without providing further details.

The Houthis said eight fishermen were killed in a series of strikes overnight, and the Sanaa-based health ministry said Saudi Arabia targeted boats off the coast of Taiz governorate. On Wednesday, Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said the group fired a ballistic missile at the coalition's military operation room at the Badr Camp in Aden. According to Xinhua, Saudi forces carried out 93 air and missile strikes across eight Yemeni provinces over the past 24 hours.

Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said the group struck the Saudi-led coalition’s military operation room at the Badr Camp in Aden with a ballistic missile, Al Jazeera reported. A police official said on Wednesday that smoke was rising near the airport in the city, which is controlled by the internationally recognized Yemeni government. The Saudi-led coalition says its forces are battling the Houthis in Kahboub, in southwestern Yemen, the Middle East Eye reported.

Britain will deploy Royal Air Force Typhoon fighter jets to Saudi Arabia to help defend the kingdom against attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, the UK government announced on Tuesday, according to DW. The British Ministry of Defence said the aircraft will protect Saudi cities and critical infrastructure from drones and missiles and will not carry out offensive strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. In Taiz, Yemen’s third-largest city, Houthi rebels struck a residential area on Tuesday, killing two teenage girls, according to the Times of Israel, which highlighted the UN warning that the siege leaves civilians at grave risk.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran has not received a response from Saudi Arabia or Yemen's Houthis to its offer to help broker talks to end the fighting between them, in a television interview aired on Tuesday, according to the Jerusalem Post.

Saudi Arabia postponed the Future Investment Initiative, known as “Davos in the Desert”, to an undisclosed date in 2027, according to a statement from the conference shared with CNN. The decision to cancel the Oct. 26-29 conference came after a series of Houthi attacks on the Saudi capital, including a deadly missile strike earlier this month on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport, CNN reported.

A Houthi missile strike on a government military camp in southern Yemen raised the death toll to 73, all of them new recruits, The Associated Press (AP) reported. Local authorities had earlier said more than 70 security personnel were killed in Monday’s strike on a camp in Yemen’s central province of Shabwa, the BBC reported.

The UK will provide additional defensive military support to Saudi Arabia given escalating Houthi attacks in the region, according to the UK Ministry of Defence. Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoon fighter jets will fly defensive counter air missions to support the protection of Saudi cities and critical national infrastructure against aerial attack, and the ministry says the warplanes will operate in a defensive role and will not be used to attack the Yemeni group, according to Al Jazeera.

The death toll from the Houthi missile strike on a government military camp in southern Yemen rose to 60 people, primarily new recruits, the deadliest strike since fighting in the country began escalating three months ago, according to The Associated Press. The BBC, citing local authorities, reported more than 50 security personnel killed and 200 injured in the strike on the camp in the central province of Shabwa. A spokesman for the Saudi-backed Yemeni armed forces said the Iran-backed group launched three ballistic missiles at al-Alam camp, near the city of Ataq.

A Houthi spokesperson said the group’s forces carried out six military operations over the past 48 hours targeting various sites in Saudi Arabia, with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones, according to Middle East Eye.

The Houthis said on Monday they had carried out multiple attacks on Saudi Arabia’s energy, airport and military infrastructure, including an Aramco facility in Yanbu, the Shaybah oilfield, King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and Abha airport, according to Reuters, in a report cited by the Hindustan Times.

More than 53 people were killed and more than 200 injured in a Houthi attack on a training center for Yemen’s security forces in the country’s southern province of Shabwa, according to TRT World. The strike hit the facility while new internal security recruits were undergoing training, the broadcaster said. A Yemeni government training camp was the target of the attack, according to the South China Morning Post.

A Houthi attack on a Yemeni government military camp in Shabwa killed at least 18 people, according to sources cited by the Jerusalem Post in the outlet’s live coverage of the country.

Egypt’s presidency said the country is ready to give Saudi Arabia all the support it needs to defend its security and stability, the Korea Herald reported. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi requested an urgent parliament session to authorize the military, one of the Arab world’s largest, to help defend its Gulf ally if the kingdom requests support. The move comes as Yemen’s Houthis step up their attacks on the kingdom.

Two Saudi Air Force officers died when an AH-6i reconnaissance helicopter crashed in southwestern Najran province, according to the Saudi-led coalition’s spokesman, Major General Turki al-Maliki, cited by RT. Yemen’s Houthis claim they shot the aircraft down. According to the Saudi authorities, the helicopter crashed because of a technical malfunction, and Riyadh did not comment on the group’s claims.

Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said Saudi forces launched 110 air strikes and missile attacks across Yemen in 24 hours, hitting Sanaa and the governorates of Hodeidah, Taiz, Amran, Hajjah, Saada, al-Jawf, al-Dhale and Marib. According to Saree, the bombardment killed or injured more than 30 people, including women and children.

An alleged Saudi airstrike in Yemen killed at least nine people and wounded 16 on Sunday, October 18, according to Houthi media, as fighting between the two sides in the country’s revived civil war escalates further. The Saba news agency, of the Iran-backed group, said a strike on a home in Saada governorate, in the country’s north, led to the martyrdom of nine people and wounded 16 others, most of them women and children.

The Kingdom Centre tower in Riyadh ordered mandatory remote work for all office employees, “effective immediately and until further notice”, the building’s management said. The Saudi-led coalition said two pilots died when an AH-6i reconnaissance helicopter crashed in Najran Region due to a technical malfunction, coalition spokesman Turki al-Malki said — a version the Houthis dispute: spokesman Yahya Saree said late on Saturday that the group had downed an Apache helicopter in the same area.

A Yemeni military source called on employees and citizens to stay away from Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities and advised Aramco shareholders to sell their shares before it is too late, according to Mehr News. The Houthis had already warned Aramco shareholders of what they described as potential financial losses in the coming days, according to al-Masirah, cited by Xinhua.

Houthi armed forces spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Saree said Saudi warplanes carried out 53 air raids across Yemen in 24 hours, targeting civilian sites in the capital, Sanaa, and the governorates of Taiz, Ibb, Lahj, Saada and Amran, according to Xinhua. Saree said the cumulative number of Saudi airstrikes and missile attacks since the escalation began had reached 2,542, according to the Palestine Chronicle.

The Saudi-led coalition said an AH-6i reconnaissance helicopter crashed in Najran, in Saudi Arabia, due to a technical malfunction, killing two officers. The coalition also said it intercepted two ballistic missiles launched by the Houthis toward Khamis Mushait and four drones over several hours in the Riyadh region, the Eastern Province and southern Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi-led coalition said it had intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles launched by the Houthis towards Khamis Mushait in southwestern Saudi Arabia, according to coalition spokesperson Turki al Maliki, cited by TRT World; on Saturday, he said coalition forces had also intercepted and destroyed four drones over several hours in the Riyadh region, the Eastern Province and southern Saudi Arabia. Saudi Civil Defense issued “potential danger” alerts in Riyadh, Abha and Khamis Mushait and later said the danger had passed. Saudi-led forces said they had struck multiple positions around the Yemeni city of Taiz to break the Houthi siege, according to Al Jazeera. The Houthis claimed to have shot down a Saudi Apache helicopter near the border region of Najran, according to TASS, while Saudi warplanes carried out 53 airstrikes in Yemen over the past 24 hours, according to Xinhua.

The United Arab Emirates agreed to resume funding some Yemeni forces fighting Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in exchange for Saudi air support, according to the Guardian. The southern Yemeni forces that will receive payments again are considered among the most effective in the fragmented anti-Houthi camp, according to the Guardian, in a text republished by Opera Mundi.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in Baghdad on Saturday that Tehran supports a “political process” to resolve the conflict between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Houthis, according to The Hindu. Araghchi repeated Iran’s offer to mediate between the two sides; Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh previously said Riyadh had not responded to Iran’s overture. On Friday, Iran denied involvement in the Houthi attacks after Saudi Arabia accused Tehran of encouraging the group’s escalation.

The Houthis fired missiles at the presidential palace in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Thursday, killing five people and wounding 16, according to Al Jazeera. Al-Maashiq Palace was hit by five missiles, according to Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani. On Friday, two missiles landed on the grounds of Aden International Airport as a passenger plane prepared to take off for Cairo.

Yemeni forces and the Saudi-led coalition say they have killed 378 Houthis and destroyed two missile launchers, according to Middle East Eye. The coalition said the destruction took place in Saada Province, Yemen, in a statement early on Saturday, according to CGTN.

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmail Baghai, denied on Friday, in a statement, any Iranian involvement in the drone and missile attacks, according to Le Monde. The spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, Turki Al-Malki, said coalition forces intercepted and destroyed three drones in the south of the country and in Riyadh, as well as two cruise missiles over the Red Sea. Saudi Arabia's Civil Defence lifted the early warning alerts it had issued for Abha city and the Khamis Mushait governorate, according to Middle East Eye.

Yemen’s internationally recognised government said the Houthis launched missiles at Aden airport on Friday, a day after a deadly attack on the presidential palace in the port city. Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani said the two missiles landed near the runway, 500 metres from an aircraft preparing to take off, with no injuries among passengers and crew. The Houthis, in a statement attributed to a military source and cited by AFP, said they attacked “the Saudi forces’ command headquarters in the Badr camp in Aden province” and a weapons depot. The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthis said it downed missiles and drones over Riyadh and other parts of Saudi Arabia.

Two missiles struck close to the airport in Aden, the southern Yemeni city that serves as the temporary base of the internationally recognised government, according to police sources cited by Middle East Eye. Government forces said they had neutralised more than 430 Houthi fighters over the past 24 hours.

US President Donald Trump said Saudi Arabia should take up Israel’s offer of help against Yemen’s Houthis, according to Middle East Eye. A diplomatic source cited by Haaretz said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had offered Riyadh help against the Houthis through US mediation.

A Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted and destroyed three drones in the south and in Riyadh, as well as two cruise missiles over the Red Sea, according to coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki. Riyadh's main international airport remains closed after a deadly strike there last week, and since July the Houthis have repeatedly struck Saudi targets including Red Sea tankers, oil facilities and the capital's airport, where 13 people were killed.

Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister Waleed Elkhereiji said Houthi attacks on civilian, economic and airport facilities in the kingdom constitute full-fledged war crimes, according to Middle East Eye. According to the Saudi official agency SPA, cited by the outlet, Elkhereiji said the attacks crossed all ethical and religious boundaries by deliberately targeting Makkah, Madinah, Umrah performers and visitors.

Yemen’s health minister said the attack on the presidential palace in Aden left five dead and 16 wounded, and at least six explosions struck on Thursday the area of the complex used by the country’s internationally recognised government, according to France24, in a text with the Associated Press (AP). The government said, through the SABA news agency, that the Houthis attacked with missiles and drones; the movement claimed the action.

The Houthis claimed responsibility for Thursday’s attack in the vicinity of the palace used by Yemen’s internationally recognised government, in Aden, where at least six explosions struck the area and at least two people were killed, according to witnesses and an official cited by The Hindu. No minister present in the palace was harmed, and Youth Minister Nayef Saleh al-Bakri asked cabinet members not to leave the city, according to the Times of India.

Yemen’s armed forces said they carried out more than 1,250 precise targeting operations in the past 24 hours against sites and military capabilities belonging to the Houthis, according to the Times of India. A military spokesperson said in a post on X that initial field estimates indicate the neutralisation of about 700 militia elements and the destruction or disabling of more than 150 vehicles.

The Houthis fired several missiles at the presidential palace complex in Aden, southern Yemen, on Thursday, according to government officials cited by The Jerusalem Post. BBC News reported that two security personnel were killed in the missile attack on the presidential palace in the port city.

The European Union (EU) and Gulf states agreed to postpone their summit that was due to be held in Saudi Arabia on October 24, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a text published by The Jerusalem Post. Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said on arrival at a summit of EU leaders in Brussels that the meeting in Riyadh would be postponed, maybe for security reasons. On Tuesday, the Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted three missiles and two drones fired by Houthis toward Riyadh and Aramco’s headquarters in Dhahran.

Houthi attacks on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport on October 8, 10, and 11 killed at least 16 people, according to The Jerusalem Post, citing Media Line. The deadliest strike, on October 10, killed 12 people and injured 309 others. On October 13, another attack damaged an administrative building at Saudi Aramco’s headquarters in Dhahran.

Yemen’s armed forces spokesman Yahya Saree rejected on Thursday that any attack was launched toward Medina, calling the Saudi claim a big and blatant lie, according to the Mehr News Agency. In a statement carried by Al-Masirah, Saree said the Yemeni armed forces did not carry out any targeting operations toward Saudi territory on Thursday.

Since October 6, Houthi strikes against Saudi Arabia have killed at least 20 people and injured almost 400, according to Middle East Eye. The Houthis vowed more attacks after hitting Aramco’s headquarters, facilities in Dhahran, a refinery in Riyadh and Riyadh’s airport over the past week.

The Houthis claimed to have struck a Saudi Eurofighter Typhoon in the airspace over the Saada governorate, in Yemen. The group’s spokesman, Yahya Saree, said on Telegram that the aircraft had taken off from the Taif base, was hit by a surface-to-air missile and “may crash”, according to TASS. Middle East Eye reports the same claim, with an air-to-air missile.

The Yemeni army said more than 200 Houthi fighters were killed or wounded in fighting in Taiz province in the country’s southwest, according to Middle East Eye. In a Facebook statement, the Taiz Military Axis said fighting continued throughout Wednesday on the Dhubab front west of Taiz city and on the al-Aqrud and al-Shaqab fronts to the south. The Houthis say they took prisoner more than 700 soldiers of the government army during the clashes in Taiz province, according to TASS.

Yemen's Houthis said on Wednesday they had targeted facilities belonging to Aramco, after Saudi officials reported a strike on a building in an area housing the energy giant's operations centre. The Houthis also said they had bombed Aramco in Dhahran, in eastern Saudi Arabia, as well as the airport and a refinery in the capital, Riyadh, without specifying the date of the attacks. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Georgy Borisenko said Russia condemns attacks on any civilian facility, citing the attacks on Riyadh International Airport.

The Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted and destroyed a Houthi ballistic missile launched towards Riyadh, and the Saudi Ministry of Energy confirmed that the administrative building belonging to Aramco in Dhahran was hit, according to Al Jazeera. Houthi attacks on Riyadh’s King Khalid international airport over the weekend killed 14 people and wounded more than 300 others. The coalition also carried out a strike on a fuel depot near Sanaa, the Houthi-controlled capital, according to its spokesperson, cited by the BBC.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said hospitals across Yemen are struggling to treat a sharp rise in people wounded along several front lines. Front-line hospitals in Marib, Taiz and on Yemen's Red Sea coast saw unprecedented numbers of weapon-wounded patients, with some admitting more than 700 casualties in a single week, according to the ICRC, in an Al-Monitor report based on Reuters. The fighting pits the Iran-backed Houthis against Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces. More than 200,000 people have been displaced since the fighting resumed in recent weeks, according to the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Israeli defense officials assess that the Houthi threat has intensified amid fighting with Saudi Arabia and are preparing for a possible surprise attack against Israel by land or sea, according to The Jerusalem Post. The preparations include reserve and rapid-response troops in the Eilat area, with training exercises, weapons systems and coordination among ground, naval and air units.

Debris from two intercepted Houthi missiles injured four people in Riyadh, Saudi civil defence said on Wednesday. The injured are two women, a man and a child, and 15 homes were damaged, civil defence said, adding that the missiles had been launched by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis. The Saudi-led military coalition said it intercepted and destroyed a cruise missile in Al-Kharj Governorate, according to Middle East Eye, citing Reuters.

The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted missiles fired by the Houthis towards Aramco’s headquarters in Dhahran and destroyed three cruise missiles and two drones on Tuesday in Riyadh and the country’s southern region, according to the coalition. Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the Houthis are stepping up attacks on infrastructure in Saudi Arabia in a bid to increase energy prices ahead of the US midterm elections and repeated his threat that the US could step up military attacks across the Middle East after the November elections, according to Al Jazeera.

Saudi Arabia has launched a series of strikes on a strategic oil depot on the outskirts of Sana’a, in a fresh escalation of the conflict between Riyadh and the Iran-backed Houthi forces, according to The Guardian. A Saudi strike on an oil company in Ras Issa near Hodeidah killed two people and wounded two others, according to the health ministry affiliated with the Houthis.

King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh remains closed, and a notice to airmen (Notam) indicates the closure will last until at least October 17. Weekend strikes on the airport killed at least 14 people and injured about 320, according to Middle East Eye. Saudi Arabia's cabinet, chaired by Mohammed bin Salman, said Yemen's Houthis would face “consequences” for the attacks, according to Saudi state media. The coalition told civilians to evacuate the Yemeni Oil Company's al-Sabaha central station in Sanaa before a military operation.

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarie said Aramco facilities are legitimate targets and called on employees and civilians to evacuate the sites, according to The Jerusalem Post. The French embassy in Riyadh told French nationals to avoid the airports in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam and to avoid travelling to those cities unless necessary, according to France 24. The Saudi-led coalition urged civilians to evacuate the Yemen Oil Company’s Sabah central station in Sanaa ahead of a planned military operation, according to France 24.

Suspensions of flights to and from Riyadh now cover several international airlines, which extended cancellations through October 19 after Houthi attacks, and Delta has postponed its first direct US flights to Saudi Arabia to March 2027, according to France24.

The Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms said that actions by Houthi forces killed at least five civilians and wounded more than a dozen others over the past 24 hours in Taiz, where an attack on Tuesday morning hit a hospital and left at least one person wounded, according to the Middle East Eye, which cites the state-run Saba agency for the hospital attack. The Yemeni government warned of an “imminent health and humanitarian catastrophe” in besieged Taiz, after the Houthis captured Mocha and, by October 4, At Turbah, cutting the last main road to government-held areas, according to Al Jazeera, which cites Yemen's Health Ministry for the warning.

Saudi warplanes carried out airstrikes on multiple locations in Yemen early Tuesday local time, Houthi media reports, from Harf Sufyan district in Amran governorate, north of Sanaa, to Kamaran island and al-Qanawis district in al-Hodeidah governorate in western Yemen. The Houthis said they targeted the airport in Riyadh late on Monday, after the group’s attacks on King Khalid International airport killed 14 people and injured hundreds in the previous two days. Houthi official Mohammed Al Bukhaiti threatened a quick and painful response against the United States and all its interests in the region if the US gets involved in the aggression against Yemen, in an interview with Agence France-Presse (AFP). Asked what he planned to do about the Houthis, Trump said they are “misbehaving very badly”.

The spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition, Brigadier General Turki al-Maliki, said the coalition intercepted two ballistic missiles fired by the Houthis toward the Khamis Mushait governorate on Monday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi offered to help facilitate talks between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis in a call with his Saudi counterpart amid deadly attacks, according to The Jerusalem Post. Xinhua reported that Iran voiced readiness to provide any kind of assistance to help initiate dialogue between Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

The Houthis said they hit King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh with a ballistic missile in a precise strike and an airbase in Khamis Mushait with a drone, and warned international air carriers and passengers against flying to Saudi airports, according to TASS. Saudi Arabia said it destroyed a ballistic missile fired towards Riyadh, according to G1.

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Monday the UK is ready to consider further requests of support for Saudi Arabia, according to Middle East Eye. The offer comes after Houthi attacks on the kingdom escalated in recent days, the deadliest of which killed at least 12 and injured more than 300. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey stands beside Saudi Arabia against “unlawful and inhumane attacks”.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said Tehran is “deeply concerned” about developments in the Arabian Peninsula and declared it ready “to help facilitate dialogue between the parties,” according to The Hindu. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday that he discussed the ongoing conflict between Riyadh and the Houthis with his Saudi counterpart, Faisal bin Farhan and said, according to Sputnik, that the region’s crises have no military solution and that Iran is ready to provide any form of assistance to initiate dialogue between Saudi Arabia and Yemen and reach a political settlement.

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan and Türkiye, as the R4 Group, condemned on Sunday the ongoing Houthi attacks on the Kingdom, including those launched against King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, which killed and injured civilians and damaged civilian infrastructure, calling them a “blatant violation of international law” and a “flagrant violation” of Saudi sovereignty and territorial integrity, according to Arab News. The group reaffirmed solidarity with Saudi Arabia, with full support for all “legitimate measures and steps” the country takes to respond to the attacks, according to Reuters, in a text republished by the Lufkin Daily News.

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister spoke with his Iranian counterpart about the recent escalation of the regional conflict and efforts to lower tensions, the officials’ first publicly reported contact since Iran-aligned Houthis intensified strikes on the kingdom, according to the Saudi state news agency, in a Reuters report republished by the Jerusalem Post.

Sunday’s strike on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh left one person dead and 11 wounded, according to Saudi Arabia’s Civil Aviation Authority. The person killed was a Pakistani national living in the country, according to TASS. Saudi Arabia said Sunday that it would “respond decisively” against the Iranian-backed Houthis, a day after a strike on Riyadh’s international airport, according to The Washington Post.

A new attack struck a passenger terminal at Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport on Sunday, starting a fire and injuring people, according to Middle East Eye. Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation authority said the attack “resulted in injuries” but gave no figure, and confirmed there are casualties, according to Sputnik Globe. Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree renewed his warning against using Saudi airports and airspace, according to Middle East Eye.

The Houthis said they carried out four operations in 24 hours with ballistic and cruise missiles and drones, according to spokesman Yahya Saria. According to him, the targets included an Aramco gas facility in Shedgum and an oil facility in Tanajib in eastern Saudi Arabia, followed by fires, as well as King Khalid airport in Riyadh and King Fahd airport in Dammam, where he said navigation was suspended.

The Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed 136 military targets in areas controlled by the Houthis in a large-scale operation on Saturday. Almasirah TV, run by the Houthis, reported that Saudi missiles targeted areas in the northwestern Yemeni governorate of Saada.

Saturday's attack on Riyadh airport killed twelve people and wounded 309, the deadliest Saudi Arabia has seen in ten years, according to Le Monde. A French citizen is among the wounded, according to the newspaper. Russia condemned the attack and called on the parties to the conflicts in the Arabian Peninsula to refrain from strikes on civilian infrastructure, according to TASS, citing the Russian foreign ministry.

Houthi-affiliated media reported on Sunday an attack on Yemen's Sanaa International Airport that it said was carried out by Saudi Arabia, according to Middle East Eye. The same media reported that the Harf Sufyan district in the governorate of Amran, north of Sanaa, was targeted with seven air strikes, according to the same source.

Yemen's Ministry of Public Health and Population said on Saturday that medicines, intravenous fluids, medical supplies and fuel at Taiz health facilities were “nearing depletion”. The ministry said emergency care, surgery, intensive care, dialysis and neonatal services could be forced to stop if the situation continued. Middle East Eye reported the alert over the “near depletion” of medical and fuel supplies in the city.

The Houthis renewed their warning on Sunday to airlines, workers and travelers not to use airports in Saudi Arabia and said the warning should be taken seriously, after the attack on Riyadh’s international airport. According to Saudi authorities, cited by The Jerusalem Post, Saturday’s attack left 12 dead and more than 300 wounded. Saudi civil aviation extended the closure of King Khalid airport until 5 p.m. (UTC-4) on Sunday, under a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM). India condemned the attack, cited the 12 dead and more than 300 wounded and called attacks on civilians completely unacceptable.

Yemen's Saba news agency said Saudi Arabia targeted the Majz district in Saada province six times, in northern Yemen, according to Mehr News. Schools in Riyadh will move to remote learning for a week, by order of the education ministry, according to an email sent to parents on Sunday, following the deadly attacks on the capital's airport. All flights were diverted from Riyadh on Saturday and operations at the airport, which serves a city of roughly 8 million people, were temporarily suspended, the Saudi civil aviation authority said.

The UN secretary-general, António Guterres, condemned the Houthi attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, which reportedly killed 12 people and injured hundreds of civilians, according to TASS. The secretary-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Jasem al-Budaiwi, called the attacks “treacherous terrorist attacks”. Asked on Saturday whether he had changed his mind about joining Saudi strikes on the group, Donald Trump said the United States “may”. Four Saudis, two Bangladeshis, one US citizen, one Egyptian, one Jordanian, one Syrian, one Palestinian and one Sudanese are among the 12 dead, according to Le Monde.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned the Houthi attacks against Saudi Arabia, including Saturday’s attack on King Khalid airport in Riyadh, according to Al Jazeera. In a statement, Rubio said Washington strongly condemns the attacks by what he called terrorist Houthis and confirmed that the airport strike killed numerous innocent lives, including an American citizen, according to TASS.

Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority said an attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh killed at least 12 people and wounded 309, according to Middle East Eye. The dead included four Saudi citizens, two Bangladeshi nationals, one US citizen, one Egyptian, one Jordanian, one Syrian, one Palestinian and one Sudanese, according to NPR. US President Donald Trump said he is evaluating whether the country should join Saudi strikes against the Houthis after the Saturday attack, according to NPR.

A missile struck the complex housing terminals 3 and 4 for domestic flights at Riyadh’s King Khalid airport, wounding many people, according to The Hindu. As a precaution, the airport will remain closed to arrivals and departures until about midnight local time, according to TASS. US President Donald Trump said the United States may join Saudi strikes against the Houthis and will decide quickly, according to The Jerusalem Post. After learning of the attack, he said: “We may. We’re going to look at it,” according to The Hindu.

The King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh temporarily suspended operations after an attack on Saturday that wounded several people, according to France 24. Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation authority said the number of wounded was still being assessed and that operations remained suspended pending the completion of the damage assessment and the verification of the safety of the facilities, according to France 24. Reuters reported that several people were wounded in the attack, according to the civil aviation authority. A diplomatic source attributed Saturday’s attack to a missile fired by the Houthis, and the group did not announce a new attack on Saturday, according to France 24.

A loud explosion was heard at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Saturday, with parts of the terminal evacuated and more than a dozen ambulances rushing to the site, according to an eyewitness and people briefed on the matter cited by Reuters, in a text republished by the Jerusalem Post. The airport suspended operations and stopped serving inbound and outbound flights, TASS reported. Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways canceled multiple flights between their hubs and Riyadh, with some cancellations extending into Monday, according to Reuters. A medical source told AFP that dozens of people were injured at the airport, at least five of them in intensive care, in a strike that a diplomatic source attributed to the Houthis, according to Middle East Eye. The airport had already been attacked twice this week, leaving four people dead, others wounded and an aircraft damaged, according to Reuters.

Yemeni government forces are advancing against the Houthis in areas around the Bab al-Mandab strait, but have not yet secured control of the waterway, Yemeni military sources said, according to France24. The Houthis confirmed that government forces had attacked in the Bab al-Mandab area but claimed to have repelled the assault.

A pilot for the flagship carrier Saudia is among the three dead in the Houthi missile attacks on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, which threaten to choke off business travel, according to the Wall Street Journal, in a text republished by the Hindustan Times.

The city of Taiz is under houthi siege again, after the group captured the town of al-Turbah by October 4, severing the only remaining main road between Taiz city and other government-held areas, according to Al Jazeera. In early September, the Houthis launched an offensive along the Red Sea coast of Taiz governorate, according to Al Jazeera. Residents are stocking up on water and other essentials, fearful of shortages as food and fuel prices rise under the new siege.

The Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed 136 military targets in areas controlled by the Houthis in a large-scale operation, according to Le Monde. Saudi Arabia said Houthi attacks on Riyadh’s international airport earlier this week killed three people, according to Le Monde. Yemen’s government said 1,400 Houthis were killed in 2,750 strikes, according to the Middle East Eye.

Turkey, Qatar and Kuwait condemned Houthi attacks on Saudi airports earlier this week, which killed three Saudi nationals and damaged property, according to Middle East Eye. Turkey’s Foreign Ministry denounced “in the strongest terms” the strikes on Abha International Airport in the south and King Khalid International Airport, according to the same report.

The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said on Friday it was carrying out a wide-ranging operation against the elements and capabilities of the Houthis, according to a statement by the coalition spokesperson. The statement said that 136 military targets had been destroyed in areas controlled by the Houthis, adding that the coalition was providing round-the-clock air support to Yemeni government forces. The UN Special Envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, told the Security Council that the country had slid back into full-scale war. According to the UN, at least 46 civilians have been killed and more than 130 injured since August in the fighting.

Pakistan says it has a substantial contingent of forces and resources in Saudi Arabia in a defensive capacity, amid Houthi attacks. The Pakistani foreign ministry spokesperson said those troops would not cross the border to attack the Houthis and would act in defence of Saudi territory. The Makkah Joint Defence Agreement, signed on August 7, 2026 by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye, commits the three countries to treat an armed attack against one member as an attack against all.

The United States (US) and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued alerts after the Houthi attacks on Riyadh airport. The US Embassy in Jordan issued a travel advisory to Americans in the Middle East, pointing to the Houthi attack on Riyadh airport, and EASA recommended that airlines not operate within additional portions of Saudi airspace.

The Saudi-led coalition said on Wednesday it had destroyed 82 Houthi military targets across several provinces, in a large-scale operation, according to CGTN. Coalition spokesman Turki Al Maliki said on X that the operation targeted sites in Saada, Hodeidah, Al-Jawf and Marib. The Houthi group said Saudi Arabia had carried out 156 air and missile strikes on Sanaa, the capital it controls.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the Houthi attacks targeting Saudi Arabia, including the strikes on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport, which resulted in casualties, saying Pakistan stands in unwavering solidarity with the kingdom on sovereignty, territorial integrity and security, under the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, according to the Middle East Eye.

The Houthis said they struck Riyadh airport with a ballistic missile, badly damaging a plane, according to The Guardian. Lufthansa and Air India suspended flights to Riyadh. Saudi Arabia did not comment on the claim but confirmed three killed in airport strikes earlier this week.

Reuters reported that Syria is considering providing military assistance to Saudi Arabia, including defensive aid or sending forces to fight the Houthis alongside Riyadh-backed Yemeni troops. Ahmad Zaidan, media adviser to Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara, denied the reports and called any Saudi request for Syrian forces in Saudi Arabia or Yemen “lies”. Syria’s foreign ministry condemned Houthi attacks on Saudi civilian installations, including Abha International Airport and King Khalid International Airport, which killed three people and injured 36.

Saudi authorities said Houthi strikes on the airports in Riyadh and Abha killed three people and injured dozens, according to The New York Times. Air India said flight AI2243, from Delhi to Riyadh, returned to Delhi on Thursday in the interest of passenger and crew safety; the service was cancelled, with full refunds offered. Flights were disrupted after Iran-aligned Houthi rebels reportedly targeted Saudi Arabia, including a missile fired towards Riyadh International Airport, according to The Hindu.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Turkey will not send troops to Yemen to fight Houthi forces, despite its defence agreement with Saudi Arabia, according to Firstpost. Fidan said the deal is defensive and does not authorise attacks on another country's territory. The Mecca Agreement, signed by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan in August, commits the three to mutual defence, with an armed attack on one member treated as an attack on all three.

The Houthis said they struck King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh with a ballistic missile on October 7 — the second time this week they claimed an attack on the main airport in the Saudi capital, according to Al-Monitor. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said in a post on X that the group’s armed forces struck the airport and that the strike was “accurate, by God’s grace,” and caused an “air traffic disruption.” The Saudi-led military coalition backing Yemen’s government said the missile was intercepted.

Syria is considering giving military assistance to Saudi Arabia in the war against the Houthis — with options including defensive aid or deploying forces in support of Saudi-backed Yemeni troops — although the Syrian president's media adviser denies that Riyadh requested Syrian forces, according to The Jerusalem Post.

Houthi attacks on the international airports of Abha and King Khalid, in Riyadh, took place on October 6 and 7, according to the BBC — two women died in Abha and a Sudanese resident in Riyadh, with 28 and 8 wounded respectively. Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority (Gaca) attributes 3 dead and 36 wounded to the attacks. Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said the group's forces hit King Khalid airport, in Riyadh, with a ballistic missile, disrupting air traffic. The Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed the launch platform used in the Riyadh attack and then 82 legitimate military targets, including Houthi mountain-based missile facilities and command-and-control centers. UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the continued Houthi cross-border attacks on Saudi Arabia. The UN said on Wednesday that the fighting in Yemen displaced more than 200,000 people.

The Yemeni army says it “neutralized” 1,860 Houthis in 2,103 targeting operations as part of Operation Dawn of Yemen — the spokesman did not specify how many were killed or wounded, and there was no immediate comment from the Houthis, according to Anadolu (AA).

The Saudi-led coalition said it destroyed 82 targets in a “comprehensive operation” across Saada, Hodeidah, al-Jawf and Marib, according to spokesperson Major-General Turki al-Maliki. According to him, the targets included 11 mountain-based ballistic missile storage sites in Saada, as well as command and control centres, communications systems, missile and weapons depots. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the Ansar Allah movement launched ballistic missile strikes on coalition positions south of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

Three people were killed and 36 others were injured in two attacks on international airports in Saudi Arabia, according to the kingdom’s General Authority of Civil Aviation, in a TASS report. In the strike on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, a Sudanese national was killed and eight others were injured, including five Saudis, two Egyptians and one Pakistani.

Turkey is sending mainly defensive and technical support to Saudi Arabia to help it fight Yemen’s Houthis, two officials said on Wednesday, according to Reuters, in a text republished by the Jerusalem Post. The support expected would be only military equipment, intelligence sharing and weapons systems, with no other form of deployment by the alliance so far, according to the officials. Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said, after a meeting of the Mecca alliance, that the sides had discussed what support to provide Saudi Arabia for its defensive capabilities.

More than 200,000 people have left their homes in Yemen since the recent fighting began, according to data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) released on Wednesday, in a Reuters text republished by the Jerusalem Post. Displacement surged from 76,000 in mid-September to more than 200,000, nearly all of them fleeing since the fighting started in early September. The Houthis seized the country’s entire Red Sea coast last month from forces of the internationally recognized government, based in Aden.

The attack on Aden airport gains detail: a missile landed near the runway minutes before a flight from Cairo was to land, according to Al Jazeera via Yemen’s government. Yemen’s government says the Houthis targeted the runway and passenger terminal with at least two ballistic missiles and drones; the Houthis say they targeted Saudi military supplies at the Badr camp, and the Saudi-led coalition says it intercepted a ballistic missile north of Riyadh.

Brent rose 93 cents, to $101.51 a barrel, according to Mehr News. The gains reflected supply fears from a storm heading for US oil-producing regions and attacks by Yemen’s Ansarullah movement on Saudi Arabia, according to Reuters, in a text republished by Mehr News. Brent for December delivery stood at $101.45 as of 02:30 GMT, up 0.87%, according to Al Jazeera.

Reports indicate that explosions were heard in Riyadh without any prior warning being announced, according to Mehr News. Saudi authorities had not commented by the time of publication on reports of suspended airport operations and the downing of the drone. The Houthis claim to have shot down a Saudi CH-4 reconnaissance and strike drone in the airspace of Al-Jawf, according to TASS.

Two missiles launched by the Houthis targeted Aden International Airport on Wednesday, according to Aden’s security office cited by Middle East Eye. Videos show explosions near the airport after Yemen’s Saudi-backed government said the two missiles were fired by Houthi forces, with no casualties reported, according to Al Jazeera.

Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority said airports in Najran and Jizan were hit on Monday, with three lightly injured and damage to both facilities, according to AP, in a text republished by PBS News. The Saudi-led coalition said on Tuesday it intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the Iran-backed Houthis toward Khamis Mushait, a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia home to a major Saudi military base. Al Jazeera reported two powerful explosions near Aden international airport, in a Middle East Eye live blog update.

The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis towards the city of Khamis Mushait, in southern Saudi Arabia, according to Middle East Eye. The coalition also said it intercepted a missile fired by Yemen’s Houthis, according to the Hindustan Times.

Yemen’s government said on Tuesday, October 6, that its forces are inflicting heavy losses in personnel and equipment on the Houthis in southern Taiz, according to the Middle East Eye. The fighting is taking place on the Al-Salw front, south of Taiz, with government-aligned troops backed by popular resistance forces.

Yemen's government says it retook the Red Sea port city of Mocha on Monday, according to the Hindustan Times. The Houthis of the Ansar Allah movement denied the advance of pro-government forces in western Yemen and said they retain control of their positions, according to TASS. The Houthis also said more than 200 Yemeni government army troops were killed or injured in dozens of strikes.

The Houthi spokesperson Yahya Saree said drone and missile attacks targeted King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. The same statement said the Aramco refinery in Rabigh was also hit, along with military installations and smaller airports in the country’s south. According to Middle East Eye, the group targeted King Khalid International Airport for the second time on Monday. The Houthis declared Saudi airspace an open theatre for their operations, except the holy airspaces of Makkah and Madinah. UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed concern over the “strong escalation” of the fighting in Yemen and condemned the Houthi attacks on Saudi territory, according to AFP.

Yemeni pro-government forces backed by Saudi Arabia say they have secured the Bab al-Mandab Strait at the start of a major offensive against the Houthis, according to the BBC. A Yemeni military spokesman said the Giants Brigades and National Shield forces are besieging Houthi fighters in Dhubab, a Red Sea coastal town, after taking its airport and cutting the road to the port city of Mokha. Houthi-run media denied that government forces had advanced in the Dhubab area. The Saudi-led military coalition said its fighter jets destroyed more than 300 high-value targets in strikes supporting the offensive, according to the BBC.

Yemen's military said it carried out more than 1,000 strikes and began an offensive against the Houthi-held capital, Sanaa, with 100 planes from the Saudi-led coalition flying sorties at dawn, according to The Hindu, in an AFP report. Coalition spokesman Major General Turki al-Maliki said 100 jets flew at daybreak in the operation dubbed “Dawn of Yemen”, providing “round-the-clock air support for the Yemeni armed forces on the ground”, according to The Hindu. The Houthis effectively encircled the city of Taiz after cutting the main supply route linking it to Aden, also according to The Hindu.

The coordination center for humanitarian operations controlled by the Houthis called on airlines to avoid Saudi Arabia’s airspace, according to TASS, citing the Houthi-controlled SABA agency. The same center said the kingdom’s airspace “will become a theater of military operations” for the rebel forces. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued an advisory to airlines to avoid Saudi airspace, according to Reuters, following a recent increase in Houthi attacks.

The Saudi-led coalition joined Operation Yemen Dawn to wrest the Red Sea from the Houthis, according to the Times of India.

The spokesperson for Yemen's government-aligned forces says 1,122 attacks were carried out against Houthi targets, according to Middle East Eye. The same spokesperson claims around 1,747 Houthi fighters were killed, according to Middle East Eye.

Yemen’s foreign ministry asked for international community support to confront the Houthis, described as a terrorist militia, according to Foreign Minister Afrah al-Zouba, who called that support a shared responsibility. The Saudi-led Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen pledged full support for the offensive announced by the Yemeni government against the Houthis, according to CNN.

Yemen’s Saudi-backed government declared a “battle for liberation” to retake the territory still held by the Houthis, according to Al Jazeera. AP News reported that the Yemeni government declared a major operation against the Houthis.

Smoke rose from a foam factory in Yemen's Houthi-held capital, Sanaa, after a strike that the Houthi-run broadcaster Al Masirah attributed to Saudi Arabia, according to Middle East Eye. Yemen's Saudi-backed government forces said they carried out strikes on Houthi targets in Sanaa and elsewhere on Sunday, according to Middle East Eye.

The Houthis said they launched ballistic missiles and drones at an Aramco facility in Riyadh, in a statement posted on X on Saturday by military spokesman Yahya Saree. The spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, Turki al-Maliki, called the claims of an attack on Riyadh “misleading”. Early on Sunday, the coalition said it carried out 97 “precise targeting operations” against Houthi reinforcements on the Tor al-Baha front and the Taiz axis, using warplanes, drones, artillery, missiles and snipers. A tanker reported seeing several explosions about 60 nautical miles south of the Yemeni port city of Mocha in the Gulf of Aden on Sunday, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO). The Houthis also said they forced two Saudi F-15 formations to withdraw from Taiz’s airspace with locally made anti-aircraft missiles.

The head of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council, Rashad al-Alimi, announced the start of military operations to retake the territory still held by the Houthis and restore state authority, according to Al Jazeera.

The Houthis cut a vital supply route linking Taiz with Aden, the interim capital of the Saudi-backed government, according to Middle East Eye. Three Yemeni military sources confirmed Houthi control over the area and the route, with the group effectively encircling Taiz city.

Saudi Arabia has not reported an attack on Aramco in Riyadh, nor has the state oil giant commented on the cause of the fire, according to Al Jazeera. The Saudi-led coalition said it carried out 97 “precise targeting operations” against Houthi reinforcements on the Tor al-Baha front and the Taiz axis, according to the Yemeni government.

The Houthi military spokesman, Yahya Saree, said the group struck an oil facility in Riyadh with ballistic missiles and drones, claiming the attacks caused fires. In a post on X, he said the strikes were a response to Saudi air raids on territory the group controls in Yemen, including Sanaa. An AFP journalist at the scene reported seeing fire engines trying to extinguish a blaze at Aramco’s Riyadh refinery, with ambulances and police vehicles stationed nearby.

Blasts were heard in Sanaa, and the Houthis blamed the attacks on Saudi Arabia, according to France24. The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted and destroyed four drones launched by the Houthis toward Khamis Mushait, in southern Saudi Arabia, as well as two ballistic missiles, according to Israel National News.

Yemeni government forces have confirmed attacks on what they describe as legitimate vital military targets in the Houthi-held capital Sanaa, according to Middle East Eye. Government-affiliated media reported a series of air strikes on Houthi positions in the Al-Nahdain and Jabal Attan areas of the city.

Yemen’s army said it caused more than 1,500 Houthi casualties in the past 24 hours, according to Al Jazeera.

Saudi Arabia and Yemeni government forces are planning a major counteroffensive against the Houthi Ansar Allah movement, but the United States is not yet prepared to participate, according to TASS. Washington has rebuffed, for the second time in recent weeks, the Saudi request to join the operation and conduct airstrikes against Houthi positions, and had provided Riyadh with more than 200 Houthi targets to strike, TASS reported.

Yemen's armed forces said they carried out 71 targeted operations against Houthi military sites, supply routes and gatherings of fighters across Taiz province, hitting positions in multiple districts, destroying several logistics vehicles and causing fighter casualties, according to Breaking The News, citing Al Jazeera.

President Trump's top cabinet members huddled for hours at Camp David on Friday to discuss next steps in the Iran war and the Saudi-Houthi conflict in Yemen, according to three U.S. officials who spoke to Axios. Vice President JD Vance chaired the meeting, which included Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, White House envoy Steve Witkoff, CIA director John Ratcliffe and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine. The meeting was not announced by the Trump administration.

More than 800 people have been killed and thousands more injured or displaced since fighting resumed in Yemen, according to The New York Times. The Yemeni army said it carried out 474 operations across multiple fronts over the past 24 hours, killing or wounding 1,540 Houthi fighters, with the heaviest casualties reported in Taiz, according to Al Jazeera.

A US Department of Energy electrical engineer has been arrested on charges of providing support to the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, including by buying materials for homemade explosives and drones and traveling to Yemen, according to the Associated Press, in a text republished by WGEM. Ashton Hamed Ellaboudy, 51, of Richland, Washington, was arrested Thursday and is due to make his first court appearance Friday. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says he had a goal of helping the Houthis improve their communications capabilities and traveled last September to Yemen.

The Saudi-led coalition accused the Houthis of striking the Taibah electricity distribution station with a drone, which provides power to the Prophet’s Mosque, in Medina, according to Euronews. A senior Houthi official again rejected allegations that the movement had targeted Islamic holy sites, calling them a “lie”. Turkey condemned the alleged attack and voiced support for Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia is planning an offensive against the Houthis in Yemen, with options including a coastal push to secure the Red Sea shipping route, according to Reuters, in a text published by Al-Monitor. The operation would be led on the ground by Yemeni forces overseen by Riyadh and supported by Saudi air strikes, according to six people with knowledge of the preparations. The central goal is to reverse the Houthis’ rapid gains last month, when they advanced down the coast and seized control of the Bab el-Mandeb strait. More than 100,000 Yemeni troops could be mobilized, depending on the scale of the offensive.

Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia will hold an emergency meeting of the strategic political defence committee under the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement in Riyadh next week, according to The Times of India. The agenda includes the Houthi attacks and pursuing political engagement with the Houthis instead of kinetic action, according to The Times of India. Under the pact, an armed attack on any one of the three countries is to be treated as an attack on all three. Pakistan’s foreign minister said that more than six other countries want to join the agreement, according to Middle East Eye.

Yemen’s army said it killed more than 80 Houthi fighters in 24 hours of fighting south of Marib, according to Arab News. A Middle East Eye live blog item reports at least 80 dead in fighting between Houthis and pro-government forces in the last 24 hours.

The Saudi-led coalition delivered new strikes on Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, and the provinces of Amran, Saada and Taiz, according to the Houthi movement Ansar Allah, citing the Houthi-controlled SABA news agency, in a text published by TASS. Explosions were heard in Sanaa, Houthis and AFP said. No information on casualties or damage is available at this point.

The Saudi-led coalition accused the Iran-backed Houthis of carrying out a drone attack on the Taibah power distribution station in Medina on Tuesday, according to Al Arabiya. Coalition spokesman Brig. Gen. Turki al-Maliki said the Houthis targeted the Taibah station on Tuesday, damaging a transformer and knocking it out of service. The Houthis deny the claim, according to Al Jazeera.

Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said Islamabad will use “whatever means are available” to defend Saudi Arabia against the Houthis, according to Arab News. Speaking in Rome, he declined to say whether Pakistani forces had already taken part in airstrikes, according to Arab News. The pledge is presented as an obligation under the new mutual defence pact, under which Islamabad would make “whatever means” available to Riyadh if it faces a Houthi threat, according to Al Jazeera.

Saudi Arabia appears to be mending fences with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to push back a Houthi offensive in Yemen that threatens the Saudi Red Sea oil export corridor, with drones already striking Riyadh, according to Middle East Eye. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hosted the Emirati vice president, Mansour bin Zayed, in Riyadh on Tuesday, in the most visible reconciliation effort after disputes over Sudan, Yemen and Somaliland.

Yemen’s internationally recognised, Saudi-backed government alleged that the Houthis, backed by Tehran, have modified Iranian air defence weapons into loitering cruise missiles with the assistance of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), according to Al Jazeera. Iranian authorities have not commented on details of the allegations but have broadly denied directing the Houthis, stressing the Yemeni group’s independence. President Masoud Pezeshkian rejected a connection between Iran and Houthi actions in an interview with Al Jazeera and urged Saudi Arabia and the Houthis to negotiate.

Yemen’s Armed Forces claim they carried out 356 operations against Houthi targets over the past day, according to the Middle East Eye. The army spokesman says there were 756 precision operations over 72 hours across several fronts, according to Arab News. The same spokesman claims that 2,316 Houthis were killed or wounded and four Iranian drone and missile experts were killed in Taiz, also according to Arab News.

Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan arrived in Washington on Monday for talks with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, according to Reuters. Rubio and Faisal met at the State Department as Saudi Arabia seeks US backing for its military campaign against the Houthis, according to Al-Monitor. The visit comes two days after Saudi Arabia said it intercepted multiple Houthi drones and ballistic missiles, also according to Al-Monitor.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran is ready to help facilitate an agreement between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis, according to The Diplomatic Insight. In remarks to Al Jazeera, he denied Iranian involvement in the conflict and said that what is happening in Yemen is not linked to Iran, according to the Times of India.

The Houthi-run health ministry said seven people were killed and 40 injured, including children, in a strike on shops at a market in the Mawiya junction in Taiz province on Sunday, according to Reuters, in text republished by SRN News. Later, Yemen’s internationally recognised government said its forces had targeted a Houthi military camp and vehicles at the same junction. Three military sources within the Yemeni government told Reuters that Houthi militants had recently established a military camp near the market.

Saudi Arabia accused Iran at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) of flagrant attacks on civilian and economic targets across the region. Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan condemned “flagrant” Iranian and Houthi attacks on his country and called for the upholding of freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, the Bab Al-Mandab Strait, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

The Saudi-led coalition said early Saturday it had intercepted two ballistic missiles and two drones launched by Houthis towards the kingdom, according to Reuters, in a text republished by the Express Tribune. The coalition said in posts on X that the missiles were headed towards Khamis Mushait and the drones towards the capital, Riyadh. Gulf Cooperation Council Secretary-General Jasem Mohamed Al Budaiwi condemned the attacks as a violation of Saudi Arabia’s sovereignty and a direct threat to civilian safety and regional stability, according to SANA.

Yemen’s government forces say they have retaken areas and higher ground in the southern Taiz governorate, including Jabal Bazel, which places Houthi supply lines within target reach. The claim comes from the Yemeni government itself. There was no immediate comment from the Houthis on the government accounts.

Yemen’s government leader Rashad al-Alimi called for a general mobilisation and offered immediate amnesty to Houthi fighters who leave the group, according to Al Jazeera. He urged Yemenis to join the armed and security forces through official channels and said the pardon will be issued in line with constitutional and legal procedures. Al-Alimi set the objective of restoring state institutions and exercising sovereignty over the entire country, including Sana’a.

The Saudi-led coalition said early on Saturday, September 26, 2026, that it had intercepted two drones launched by the Houthis towards Riyadh, according to Reuters. In posts on X, the coalition said the drones were headed towards the capital and that two ballistic missiles were headed towards Khamis Mushait, adding that it was monitoring the missile and drone threat against the kingdom without providing further details, according to Reuters, in text republished by StreetInsider.

Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti, Saleh bin Fawzan Al-Fawzan, gave the war against Yemen’s Houthis an explicit religious framing: he addressed troops on the front line telling them to be ready to sacrifice their lives, citing Quranic verses and sayings of the prophet Muhammad on sacrifice, and prayed for the group’s “complete defeat,” Ynet News reports, which also notes that Saudi state television aired footage of what authorities described as a Houthi attack on a mosque in the kingdom’s south. Riyadh accuses the group of attempting to strike Mecca, and the Houthis reject the accusation.

The chairman of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council, Rashad al-Alimi, called on Yemenis on Friday, 25 September 2026, to mobilize and join the armed forces against the Houthis, according to Al Arabiya English. He also offered a future general amnesty to Houthi fighters and affiliates who leave the group starting 26 September, according to Arab News.

Yemen’s Houthis sent a letter to the European Union (EU) foreign policy arm saying they have no intention of targeting European vessels in the Red Sea, Middle East Eye reports, citing the Financial Times. The letter followed the group’s capture of the port city of Mocha and the Yemeni side of the Bab al-Mandeb strait; the Houthis say their blockade applies only to Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s internationally recognized government, according to Middle East Eye.

The United Nations (UN) condemned the continued cross-border attacks by Houthi forces against Saudi Arabia, including an attempt to strike Riyadh, as well as attacks on civilians and energy infrastructure in the kingdom, according to spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric, cited by UN News. Members of the UN Security Council condemned the ongoing Houthi attacks, including strikes that damaged civilians and energy infrastructure, and expressed solidarity with Saudi Arabia and support for its right to self-defence, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).

Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti, Saleh bin Fawzan Al-Fawzan, called on the kingdom’s soldiers to be ready to lay down their lives fighting the Iran-backed Houthis until the group is ousted from power, Al-Monitor reported, citing Reuters. The statement came after weeks of escalation, with Houthi missile and drone salvos against Saudi Arabia and Saudi retaliation with airstrikes.

Saudi Arabia is meeting military chiefs from Pakistan and Türkiye to discuss options under the Mecca pact, as France confirmed it is sending soldiers, radars and defense systems to guard the Yanbu oil terminal, according to Al Jazeera. The Houthis launched an offensive along the Red Sea coast this month, amid the U.S.-led war against Iran, with fighting spreading across Yemen, according to The Washington Post.

Yemen’s Houthis said on Thursday, September 24, 2026, that they had launched missiles and drones at a “sensitive target” in Riyadh and at Aramco facilities in the Red Sea city of Yanbu, according to Al Jazeera; oil rose the same day: Brent futures for November ended above US$106.50 a barrel, after earlier exceeding US$108 and settled at US$106.60, up US$3.52, or 3.4%, according to The Vibes; according to Middle East Eye, vessel transits in the Strait of Hormuz fell to nine on Thursday, from 14 the day before and a 10-day average of about 18, preliminary ship-tracking data showed.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday, September 25, 2026, the deployment of soldiers, radar and air defense systems to protect the Yanbu terminal, in Saudi Arabia, after Houthi attacks on the East–West pipeline terminal on the Red Sea. According to the broadcaster, the mission is described as strictly defensive, with no direct combat against the Houthis.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is in good health and in full control of the country, in a Fox News interview reported by Russia’s TASS news agency, in which he said he met Khamenei face to face for seven hours about a month to a month and a half ago. In the same interview, Pezeshkian denied that Tehran directs the battle plans of Yemen’s Houthis, saying “the Houthis are responsible for their own actions” and take no orders from Tehran, according to the Middle East Eye. On the June memorandum of understanding (MoU), Pezeshkian said the text outlined a temporary ceasefire before talks collapsed, according to News18.

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan will hold an urgent meeting of their chiefs of staff, announced by the Saudi foreign ministry, to discuss ways to back Riyadh in the escalation with Yemen’s Houthis. The barrage of ballistic missiles and drones against Saudi targets, which included the holy city of Mecca, is testing the mutual defence pact signed in August with Turkey and Pakistan. The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement states that an armed attack against one of the three countries is considered an attack against all of them.

The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted six Houthi ballistic missiles on Thursday, 24 September 2026, thwarting attacks on Taif and Yanbu, after warnings were issued for several regions of the kingdom, including Mecca. French President Emmanuel Macron said France planned to send “military assets, meaning soldiers, radars and defence systems to protect” the Red Sea oil terminal of Yanbu.

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on Tuesday, 22 September 2026, branded Yemen’s Houthis a “terrorist militia” and condemned the attempt to target Mecca, describing it as a “heinous crime” and “a provocation to Muslims around the world”, according to Al Jazeera and Dawn, which published the report by the French news agency AFP. He spoke at a cabinet meeting in Jeddah, recorded by the Saudi Press Agency, the kingdom’s official news agency: a rare intervention by the 90-year-old monarch, who has left day-to-day affairs to his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Saudi Arabia says it intercepted a Houthi drone headed for Mecca on 15 September 2026, which Al Jazeera records as the first time a security alert had been activated in the city in nearly 10 years. Houthi leader Abdel-Malik al-Houthi denied the attack and called the Saudi accusation “a heinous lie”. Since then, Houthi missiles and drones have hit Saudi cities and energy infrastructure: the Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted a ballistic missile fired at Riyadh on 19 September 2026, sending a dark column of smoke from a fuel storage area at King Khalid International Airport.

Saudi air strikes on the Red Sea port of Mokha killed at least six people as Iran-backed Houthis press their offensive in Yemen, according to France 24, citing Reuters, the Associated Press and AFP. The episode comes the same day the spokesperson for the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Babar Baloch, said in Geneva that more than 130,000 people have already been displaced in Yemen and about 3,000 have fled to Djibouti since fighting resumed in early September, figures that could rise to 230,000 and 10,000 over the coming months, according to Middle East Eye.

The United Kingdom will send a Royal Air Force (RAF) Voyager tanker aircraft to provide “defensive” air-to-air refuelling to Saudi jets against Houthi attacks, Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced on Tuesday, September 22, 2026, saying he had agreed to a Saudi request for military support. The aircraft, based at the British base of Akrotiri in Cyprus, is expected to begin operating within days and the mission is “time limited”, according to BBC News, which reports it involves a single aircraft and that the support is limited to defending the country from drones and missiles rather than backing strikes on Yemen. Defence Minister Luke Pollard told Sky News, according to Middle East Eye, that the decision is about British “national security” and that “in dangerous times, good friends stand together”. Besides the Voyager, Saudi Arabia already hosts the Sky Sabre air defence system, and the Houthis have claimed drone and ballistic missile attacks on Riyadh and on energy sites on the Red Sea coast in recent days. The announcement came the same day the United Nations (UN) Refugee Agency (UNHCR) projected that around 230,000 displaced people in Yemen and another 10,000 refugees in Djibouti may need humanitarian assistance in the coming months, according to spokesperson Babar Baloch, cited by Middle East Eye.

Yemen’s government said on Tuesday, September 22, 2026, that government forces retook two villages and a hilltop position in Al-Wazi’yah district, west of Taiz, in a counteroffensive against the Houthis, according to Arab News. This month’s Houthi offensive is the largest since the United Nations (UN)-brokered truce of April 2022 and has displaced 112,000 people, UN agencies said, cited by the Middle East Eye, which warns that up to 230,000 could be displaced if fighting intensifies. The The Guardian reports that aircraft from the Saudi-led coalition struck Houthi positions, gatherings and weapons stores west of Taiz, according to Yemeni government forces.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday, September 21, 2026, that his talks with Donald Trump in New York were “very constructive” and that there was a willingness to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has blockaded during the war, according to the Hindustan Times. In the account he gave to reporters, “several solutions” were discussed that would allow, without a comprehensive deal, more container ships and tankers to move through the strait, along with the situation in the Red Sea, a route that has gained weight for oil shipments with Hormuz closed and where the seizure of a strategic strait by the Iran-backed Houthis has complicated navigation. On Ukraine, Macron said he pressed Trump to speed up the delivery of missile interceptors to Kyiv, “a defensive measure”, and said in a post on X that the two discussed the prospect of an “energy truce and a moratorium in the Black Sea”. Before the meeting, Trump had blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for part of the surge in diesel prices because of attacks on Russian refineries and called on him to stop hitting Russian diesel, according to Le Monde. Macron also met Zelensky on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

A six-second clip presented as the moment a Houthi missile struck Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport circulated on social media from September 20, 2026, and it is generated by artificial intelligence, according to a fact check by Agence France-Presse published on September 22, 2026. A reverse image search led to a longer version of the video posted on March 19, 2026, by Yemeni politician Ali Hussein Al-Bujairi and labelled “manipulated media” by X itself; the fact check points to signs of synthetic origin, among them a man apparently walking through a glass door at the three-second mark and a mobile phone floating by another man’s ear at the eleven-second mark. There were no official reports of an attack on the airport: the Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted the missile, and the fire on September 19, 2026, consumed a Saudi Aramco fuel tank at a depot next to the terminal, according to The Jakarta Post and the BBC. A fact check by German broadcaster Deutsche Welle on September 17, 2026, identified another clip, nine seconds long and with more than 340,000 views, presented as strikes on Abha and also generated by artificial intelligence, along with a video of an ambush that is in fact April 2024 footage with commentary from a 2018 football match spliced in; in both cases, the detection platform Hive Moderation flagged the imagery as synthetic. The Deutsche Welle fact check notes that the difficulty of observing the conflict independently leaves room for this kind of content, and a Misbar verification on September 21, 2026, examined the same Riyadh airport video.