Yemen's Houthis attack Saudi refinery after kingdom signs defence pact
Aug 9 (Reuters) - Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said they had attacked Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery on Sunday, two days after the kingdom signed a defence pact with Turkey and Pakistan in response to growing regional instability from the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. With Iran and the United States still arguing over the parameters for peace, the Houthis declared a naval blockade against Saudi Arabia…
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed on Sunday they had successfully targeted an Aramco refinery in Saudi Arabia's Jizan with a drone strike, responding to Saudi drone incursions into northwest Yemen. The military spokesman for the group, Yahya Saree, stated that the attack was precise. Aramco, Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company, reported that a fire at their refinery in Jizan had been extinguished by industrial security firefighting teams earlier in the day, with no injuries reported.
The 2022 truce in Yemen's civil war, which began more than a decade ago on the side of the internationally recognized government, appeared to have ended last month with the Houthis imposing a maritime blockade on their northern neighbor and attacking Saudi tankers in the Red Sea. The Houthis control large portions of Yemen, including its capital, Sanaa, and areas along the border with Red Sea provinces.
This comes amid Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, which has become a prominent point of contention between Tehran and Washington in the ongoing Middle East conflict. The Saudi energy ministry confirmed that civil response teams had managed to control a fire at the Jizan refinery, though they did not disclose the cause of the blaze. The refinery had previously been targeted by the Houthis in July.
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