Middle East latest: Riyadh airport suspends operations after attack leaves several injured

Operations at Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport were suspended after a missile struck a passenger terminal on Saturday, wounding multiple people. According to Channel News Asia, travellers evacuated parts of the airport as flights diverted or cancelled amid a worsening security crisis.

The New Straits Times reported that a diplomatic source said Yemen's Houthis attacked the airport with a missile, with one witness describing panic in the terminal and another reporting seeing a strike that left people wounded. A source at a local hospital told AFP that five people were in intensive care after being wounded at the airport, with dozens injured in total.

The attack comes after a previous attack on the airport by the Houthis on Thursday, which killed three people and damaged a plane, according to France 24. US President Donald Trump commented on the attacks, stating that the US may join Saudi strikes on the Houthis, and that decisions would be made after examining the situation. Kuwait Airways announced the cancellation of flights to and from Riyadh due to the airport's closure resulting from the security situation.

Brief written by urgent.news from France 24, Newsweek, Channel News Asia, New Straits Times, CBC News — 5 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.