Riyadh airport attack kills at least 12, Saudi officials say

At least 12 individuals were killed and 309 others sustained injuries following a strike on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport on October 11, according to Saudi civil aviation officials. A diplomatic source attributed the attack to Yemen’s Houthis, though the kingdom’s authorities refrained from naming the group. Four Saudi nationals, two Bangladeshis, one US citizen, one Egyptian, one Jordanian, one Syrian, one Palestinian, and one Sudanese were among the casualties.

Some of the wounded were reported as being in critical condition. The attack prompted Saudi health officials to activate a mass call-up of doctors to handle the "serious emergency situation." Foreign embassies urged their citizens to avoid the airport, with several warning staff against using it for the following week. Operations at the airport were suspended post-attack, and the extent of damages were still being assessed.

The Saudi-led international coalition battling the Houthis in Yemen claimed a projectile landed near another Saudi airport in Dammam earlier that day. US President Donald Trump suggested the US might join Saudi strikes against the Houthis following the incident. The civil war in Yemen reignited in July after a truce collapsed, escalating tensions in the Middle East and impacting oil supplies and global markets.