Yemen’s Houthis hit Saudi Aramco refinery with drones

AL-MONITOR Staff

Mar 19, 2021

A man photographs debris from 2020 Houthi attack on a Saudi Aramco oil facility in Jeddah. — Yemen's Houthi rebels said on March 19, 2021, that they had attacked a Saudi Aramco refinery in Riyadh with drones. Here, a man uses his phone to take pictures of debris following a Houthi missile attack on the Saudi Aramco oil facility in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea city of Jeddah on Nov. 24, 2020. — FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP via Getty Images

Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they attacked a state-owned Aramco refinery in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Friday with six explosive drones.

“The designated target was hit with high precision,” Houthi spokesperson Yahya Sarae’e wrote on Twitter.

A spokesperson for Saudi Arabia’s Energy Ministry condemned the attack, saying it caused a fire that was quickly brought under control. Saudi state media said no deaths, injuries or impact on the facility’s oil supply resulted from the incident, which occurred shortly after 6 a.m.

The drone attack marks the Houthis’ latest salvo against Riyadh as the Iran-linked rebels push to consolidate their control over Yemen’s north with a renewed offensive on the city of Marib, a final enclave controlled by the Saudi-backed and internationally recognized Yemeni government.

Yemen’s Houthis hit Saudi Aramco refinery with drones

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