Source : BRICS NEWS
SANAA, October 24, 2026 — Yemen’s Houthis have claimed attacks on seven targets in Saudi Arabia, including facilities belonging to state oil giant Aramco and the kingdom’s East-West oil pipeline, BRICS News reported on X on Saturday.
The post, published at about 12.13am Malaysia time on Sunday and marked “JUST IN”, read: “Houthis claim attacks on 7 Saudi targets, including oil giant Aramco’s facilities and East-West oil pipeline.”
https://x.com/BRICSinfo/status/2114027415240638909
Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the group targeted King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, an Aramco facility in Yanbu, the Rabigh oil refinery, crude oil pumping stations and the East-West Pipeline, Reuters reported. He said the group also targeted King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, an airport in Najran and an air base in Khamis Mushait.
Saudi authorities did not comment directly on the Houthi claims, and it was not immediately clear whether any of the attacks had hit their targets or been intercepted. The Saudi-led coalition said it had destroyed two ballistic missiles fired by the Houthis towards Yanbu and Taif.
Saudi Civil Defence said debris from intercepted missiles had fallen in the Mecca and Medina regions, including in Wadi al-Mughammas in Mecca, as well as in parts of Jeddah, Taif and Rabigh. Saudi Arabia said the Houthis had targeted Mecca and Medina, but the group denied this, saying its operations “target Saudi oil facilities and military bases”, according to Reuters and ABC News. Saudi Arabia later said Riyadh’s airport would resume flights on Sunday after a two-week closure amid Houthi attacks, The Times of Israel reported.
On another front, Yemen’s Saudi-backed government said the Houthis fired three ballistic missiles at coast guard sites in the southern port city of Aden. Earlier on Saturday, Saudi Arabia said it had intercepted a ballistic missile launched towards Riyadh by the Houthis. Earlier this month, the Houthis warned airlines against using Saudi airspace, exempting only the airspace over Mecca and Medina.
The East-West Pipeline, which runs about 1,200 kilometres from Saudi Arabia’s eastern oil fields to the Yanbu terminal on the Red Sea, has become essential to the kingdom’s exports since Iran began blockading the Strait of Hormuz at the start of the regional war. It has been targeted several times, AFP reported. Flows were halted from September 11 to 22, according to commodity tracker Kpler, and stopped again in early October after an attack on a pumping station at Khurais, east of Riyadh.
Reuters said clashes between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-allied Houthis have intensified as part of a wider conflict reignited by the Iran war, shattering a truce that had largely held since 2022. The Houthis have said their operations will continue until Saudi strikes on Yemen stop and what they call a “blockade” on the country is lifted. In early October, Saree said the group’s strikes on Aramco sites in Riyadh and Khurais were a response to Saudi attacks, claiming the kingdom had carried out 1,460 air and missile strikes on Yemen since the escalation began.
Source: BRICS News on X, Reuters, ABC News, AFP and Business Recorder.
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