Houthis claim drone strike on Saudi oil refinery in latest Red Sea flare-up
SANAA, Aug 9 — Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said on Sunday they had struck an oil facility on Saudi Ara...
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed on Sunday that they had launched a drone strike on an oil refinery located on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast. The strike, according to the group's military spokesman Yahya Saree, was accurate and targeted the Aramco refinery in Jizan. Saree stated that the attack was in response to Saudi drone incursions into northwest Yemen.
Aramco, which is Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company, reported that a fire at one of its facilities in Jizan had been extinguished without any injuries at dawn on Sunday. This development follows a 2022 truce collapse in Yemen's civil war, which Saudi Arabia had been involved in for over a decade. The Houthi rebels now control significant areas of Yemen, including the capital Sanaa and regions near Saudi Arabia's Red Sea provinces.
The threat posed by the Houthi rebels to shipping and Saudi oil facilities comes alongside Iran's ongoing blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, which has become a major point of contention between Tehran and Washington amid the ongoing Middle East conflict.
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