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Houthis Claim Responsibility for Riyadh Airport Attacks, Escalating Conflict
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In Short: Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for attacks on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport, which killed three and injured dozens.
Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for attacks on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport, which killed three people, including a Saudia pilot, and injured dozens more, according to Saudi aviation authorities.
The attacks, which occurred on October 6 and 7, 2026, followed earlier strikes on Riyadh and Abha airports, which killed three people and injured 36, according to Aerotime.
A life peer in the UK’s House of Lords has called on the government to review its decision not to list Yemen’s Houthi militia as a terrorist organization after the attack on Riyadh’s airport.
Lufthansa Group announced that its airlines would suspend Riyadh flights until October 16, citing security concerns.
The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthis rejected the group’s claim that it attacked Riyadh, calling the assertion “misleading,” even as an Agence France-Presse (AFP) journalist reported seeing flames and smoke at an oil facility near the Saudi capital.
In a statement released on social media platform X on Saturday, Yahya Saree, the military spokesperson for the Houthis, announced that the group conducted a 'military operation with ballistic missiles and drones' aimed at the Aramco site.
The attacks come as fighting intensifies between the Iran-aligned Houthis and the internationally recognized government of Yemen, backed by Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi-led coalition outlined that its forces had executed 97 'precise targeting operations' against Houthi reinforcements.
The aviation statement said the injuries to citizens and people of other nationalities “ranged from minor to serious.”
What this adds
The attacks on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport mark a significant escalation in the conflict between the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthi rebels, with the Houthis claiming responsibility for multiple strikes.
The renewed attacks have prompted calls for a review of the UK's decision not to list the Houthi militia as a terrorist organization, highlighting the growing concern over the conflict's impact on regional security.
Background
Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for an attack on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport, which killed three people including a Saudia pilot, according to reports by Newswire (Sri Lanka) and Oman Observer (Oman).
Yemen's Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for an attack on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport, killing three and injuring dozens.
What's confirmed
- Yemen's Saudi-led coalition said early on Saturday it had intercepted two ballistic missiles and two drones launched by the Houthis towards the kingdom.
- The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for Saturday's attack.
What's still developing
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- Sanaa: Yemen’s Houthi group said Sunday it launched ballistic missiles and drones at two Saudi Aramco facilities, including the Khurais oil complex southeast of Riyadh, marking a fresh escalation in the rapidly intensifying cross-border hostilities between the two sides.
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- The attacks occur daily but are rarely prosecuted.
- Pakistan has blamed a rise in attacks in the region on militants operating from Afghanistan, a claim denied by the Taliban government.
- A faction calling itself Ittehadul Mujahideen, linked to Taliban commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur and operating under the broader Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan umbrella, claimed responsibility for the attack, though Reuters reported no group had immediately claimed it in the accounts it had gathered.
- Fighting intensified last month when the Houthis launched a rapid offensive and seized coastal areas along the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait.
- "The criminal Saudi enemy continues its unjust aggression against our people by launching more aggressive raids, which in the past 12 hours amounted to 50 air and missile strikes targeting the capital, Sana'a, and the governorates of Al-Jawf, Taiz, Amran, Hajjah, and Sa'dah. This brings the total number of its aggressive raids against our people since the beginning of the escalation to 1,460 air and missile strikes," Saree said.
- “A vehicle laden with explosives attacked the police checkpoint,” said Al Jazeera’s Kamal Hyder.
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