The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said on Monday that its forces had destroyed two ballistic missile launchers in the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa, including one it said was used to fire a missile toward Riyadh that Saudi air defences intercepted.
Source: Reuters
Coalition spokesperson Maj. Gen. Turki al-Maliki said in a statement posted on X that coalition forces would continue military operations aimed at dismantling the Houthis' ballistic missile capabilities. The Houthis had not immediately responded to the coalition's claims.
Source: Arab News
Later on Monday, the Iran-aligned Houthi group said it had attacked Saudi Arabia's East-West crude oil pumping stations and Riyadh airport, but there was no immediate Saudi confirmation of those claims. The East-West pipeline carries Saudi crude from the kingdom's eastern oilfields to the Red Sea port of Yanbu, making its pumping stations a sensitive target for energy supplies.
Source: Reuters
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarie said on X that a ballistic missile had been fired at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and that drone attacks had hit crude oil pumping stations in the kingdom's eastern and western regions. Those hit claims are the Houthis' own account and have not been independently verified.
Source: ReportWire
The exchange came as Yemen's internationally recognised government pressed its own offensive. The Yemeni army said on Sunday that its forces had carried out 753 operations in the previous 24 hours under Operation Dawn of Yemen, and claimed to have 'neutralised' about 218 Houthi fighters and field commanders and destroyed or damaged 78 military vehicles and weapons systems. The army did not say how many of the 218 were killed and how many wounded, and the figures could not be independently verified.
Source: Anadolu via The Chronicle
The renewed exchange matters well beyond Yemen. Saudi Arabia hosts lakhs of Indian and Punjabi workers, and its airports and oil sites have been hit repeatedly in this round of fighting; two Indian citizens have been killed in Houthi attacks on Saudi airports earlier this month, according to reports of the October attacks. Every fresh round of missile fire raises risks for flights, oil supplies and workers across the Gulf.
Confirmed by the coalition's own statement: two launchers in Sanaa destroyed, one linked to a missile fired toward Riyadh and intercepted. Claimed by the Houthis, not confirmed by Saudi Arabia: hits on East-West pumping stations and Riyadh airport on Monday. Claimed by the Yemeni army, not independently verified: 753 operations and 218 Houthi fighters 'neutralised' in 24 hours.