Saudi Arabia woke up on Thursday to its worst week of Houthi strikes in months. The Saudi Civil Aviation Authority announced early Thursday that one person was killed and eight injured in a late Wednesday attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam. The latest Houthi attacks Saudi Arabia has absorbed mark a sharp escalation: … Read more
The Middle East slid into a more dangerous phase this week. The Houthi Aramco attack — a strike by Iran-backed Houthi rebels on an office building owned by Saudi Arabia’s oil giant — set off alarms across global energy markets, and oil prices jumped within hours. Coming just days after a separate Iranian cargo ship … Read more
The Houthi attacks Saudi airports this week killed three people and wounded 36 others in two missile and drone strikes — one in the capital Riyadh, one in the southern city of Abha. Saudi Arabia answered with dozens of airstrikes inside Yemen, and by Thursday afternoon, hundreds of flights out of Riyadh were cancelled or … Read more