RIYADH / SANAA — Yemen's Houthi movement said on Friday, November 13, that it had launched fresh drone attacks on Saudi Arabia, targeting King Khalid International Airport in the capital Riyadh and Pumping Station No. 3 on the kingdom's East-West oil pipeline, in a second straight day of claimed strikes on Saudi energy and transport sites. The claims have not been independently verified, no evidence of damage was published with them, and Saudi authorities had not commented on them as of Saturday morning.

Source: Reuters, reported Nov 13-14, 2026

Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said one drone had targeted King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, while two others struck Pumping Station No. 3 along the East-West pipeline east of the city, and he claimed both operations had achieved their objectives, the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported.

Source: IANS via India News Stream, Nov 14, 2026

In a separate statement, Sarea said two ballistic missiles had struck gatherings of Saudi forces in the Al-Tuwal area of Saudi Arabia's southwestern Jazan region, claiming dozens of personnel were killed or wounded, including Sudanese nationals. He said further ballistic missile strikes targeted Saudi-linked troop gatherings in eastern Al-Jawf province in northern Yemen and in the Kharaz and Khor Umairah areas of southern Lahj province, and that missiles and drones had struck Saudi weapons depots at the Ras Abas military base in the southern port city of Aden. All of these casualty and damage claims are the Houthis' own and could not be independently verified.

Source: IANS / Xinhua via India News Stream, Nov 14, 2026

Saudi Arabia had not commented on Friday's claims when the reports were published. A day earlier, on Thursday, the Saudi-led coalition said it had intercepted and destroyed two Houthi drones, one in the Riyadh region and another in the kingdom's oil-rich Eastern Province, in a statement by coalition spokesperson Major General Turki al-Maliki carried by the Saudi Press Agency. The coalition's Thursday statement did not mention any damage, and it did not confirm or deny the claims the Houthis made on Friday.

Source: Reuters via Yemen Monitor, Nov 13, 2026

Friday's claims came a day after the Houthis announced a separate round of attacks on Thursday, saying they had hit Pumping Station No. 7 on the same pipeline, an oil facility in the Red Sea port city of Yanbu and an Aramco building in Riyadh — claims that pushed Brent crude up more than $2 to $95.20 a barrel. Read: Thursday's pipeline and Yanbu claims, and the oil-price jump

Why the East-West pipeline matters

The East-West pipeline, also called Petroline, runs about 1,200 kilometres from the Abqaiq processing centre in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province to Yanbu on the Red Sea. It has become one of the kingdom's most important energy arteries during the regional war because it lets Saudi crude reach export terminals without passing through the Strait of Hormuz. Riyadh has rerouted about 4 million barrels per day of crude via the pipeline to Yanbu, Reuters has reported. In the strait itself, shipping remains about 65 per cent below pre-war levels, according to the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency, UKMTO.

Source: Reuters via DevDiscourse and UKMTO reporting, Nov 13-14, 2026

The claims also came in the same week that the United Nations Security Council renewed its sanctions on the Houthis, extending a targeted asset freeze and travel ban on individuals linked to the group until November 14, 2027, renewing the mandate of its Panel of Experts until December 15, 2027, and moving to restrict the group's access to components and chemicals used in making drones and missiles.

Source: UN Security Council reporting, Nov 12, 2026

Inside Yemen, fighting between the Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces has intensified across several fronts, particularly near the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait, and Yemen's army said Houthi ballistic missiles fired at Aden on Friday evening were a serious escalation. Read: Houthi ballistic missiles at Aden, Yemen army says

The United Nations migration agency, the IOM, says about 340,000 people have been forced to leave their homes by the latest fighting in Yemen, according to Al Jazeera's live coverage on Saturday. The Houthis control the capital Sanaa and much of northern Yemen, while the internationally recognised government, backed by the Saudi-led coalition, controls the south and east. The two sides have fought since 2014, when the Houthis seized Sanaa, and the Saudi-led coalition entered the war in 2015.

Source: IOM via Al Jazeera live coverage, Nov 14, 2026

For the lakhs of Punjabi and Indian workers who live and work in Saudi Arabia and across the Gulf, claims of attacks on a major international airport and on oil infrastructure are watched closely by families back home: the East-West pipeline and Riyadh's airport are part of the everyday geography of Gulf working life, and any confirmed hit — or any disruption to flights — would be felt first by migrant workers and the families who depend on their earnings.