Yemen’s Houthis claim missile, drone attacks on Saudi capital

Yemen’s Houthi group has claimed it launched missile and drone attacks on “sensitive targets” in the Saudi capital Riyadh alongside a separate attack on facilities of oil firm Saudi Aramco in coastal Yanbu, Anadolu reports. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree wrote on US social media company X on Friday that the group carried out two operations using “a large number of ballistic and cruise missiles as well as drones.” He said the first operation targeted “sensitive targets” in Riyadh, while the second targeted Saudi Aramco in the western coastal city of Yanbu. There has been as yet no Saudi comment on the Houthi claims. Earlier Saturday, Saudi Civil Defense alerts reached Riyadh for the first time in the latest wave […]