Houthis claim drone attack on Aramco site, Saudi air base
The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted drones fired at southern Saudi Arabia but did not confirm an attack on the Aramco oil facility.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed to have fired bomb-laden drones on an oil facility and an air base in southern Saudi Arabia, the latest in a series of cross-border attacks targeting the kingdom.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea tweeted on Friday that the Iran-aligned group targeted “important and sensitive locations “ at the King Khalid Air Base in the southwestern Saudi city of Khamis Mushait, as well as an oil site owned by Saudi Aramco in the Red Sea city of Jizan.
The alleged attacks came in retaliation for “the aggression escalation and the ongoing blockade of Yemen,” Sarea said.
Reuters reports that the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said it downed two Houthi drones launched toward southern Saudi Arabia and Khamis Mushait, but did not confirm an attack in Jizan.
