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Houthi Missiles Strike Government Headquarters in Yemen
Confirmed
In Short: The attack on the Saudi-backed Yemeni government headquarters in Aden is part of a broader pattern of Houthi strikes on Saudi infrastructure, including airports and oil facilities.
The Houthi-run news agency SABA reported that the headquarters in Aden, run by Saudi officers, was bombed by the group.
Five people were killed and 16 injured after the Houthis attacked the presidential palace in Aden, the seat of Yemen's Saudi-backed and internationally recognized government.
Yemeni officials confirmed that a missile launched by the Houthi movement hit a building in Dhahran, owned by Saudi Arabia's state oil company Aramco, following a Saudi-led coalition strike on a fuel depot near Sanaa.
Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree stated that the group had bombed what he described as the Saudi military operations headquarters in Aden, as part of their declared policy of targeting “Saudi reinforcements wherever they were located.”
The coalition spokesperson, Turki al-Maliki, told reporters that the Houthis had launched 20 attacks on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh this month, resulting in 17 deaths and 333 injuries.
Verified video footage showed smoke above the presidential palace in Aden, with two security personnel killed in the Houthi missile attack.
Yemen has been devastated by a civil war that began in 2014, when the Houthis ousted the internationally recognized government from Sanaa.
The conflict has intensified, with the Houthis resuming attacks on Saudi airports and oil facilities, and the coalition responding with significant military operations.
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that the intensifying conflict could have “potentially negative spillovers for everybody, everywhere.”
What's confirmed
- Coalition spokesperson Turki al-Maliki told reporters that the Houthis had launched 20 attacks on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh this month, killing 17 people and wounding 333 others.
- Houthi fighters have been attacking Saudi infrastructure. ( AP: STR ) Mr Maliki also said the coalition had destroyed 127 weapons storage facilities and launch platforms in Yemen's mountainous areas, calling on the Houthis to immediately halt operations targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure.
- The coalition said Houthi attacks on Abha airport in south-western Saudi Arabia near the Yemeni border had killed three people and wounded 28.
- On October 13, another attack damaged an administrative building at Saudi Aramco’s headquarters in Dhahran.
- The deadliest strike, on October 10, killed 12 people and injured 309 others.
- An administrative building at Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil giant Saudi Aramco in the eastern city of Dhahran was struck, triggering a limited fire, the Energy Ministry said Wednesday, as fighting between the kingdom and Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement intensified.
- In a statement issued Tuesday evening, the coalition confirmed attacking the station and other locations in an operation intended to "neutralizing the capabilities of Houthis" to threaten Saudi Arabia, Yemen and international waterways.
What's still developing
- Meanwhile, Houthi forces have intensified their offensive against the city of Taiz, launching coordinated attacks from the west, east, and south in an attempt to tighten their siege and gain control of the city.
- Government military sources said 10 others were wounded in the strikes on Al-Maashiq palace, which also serves as the headquarters of the Yemeni government in the country’s south.
- He said the Houthis had obtained advanced technologies with help from regional actors and now possessed ballistic missiles, attack and suicide drones, and fast boats loaded with explosives.
- “Houthi terrorist militias fired several ballistic missiles at the densely populated city of Marib,” the government forces said on X.
- The Yemeni Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani said in a social media post on Thursday that Houthis had targeted the al-Maashiq presidential palace with five missiles.
- Elmasry said the Houthis also have an image crisis, with the global community viewing their actions as “reprehensible, in particular these targeting civilian infrastructure”.
- It said that in the past 24 hours its forces had carried out 2,200 strikes against Houthi positions, killing about 1,200 fighters and destroying or disabling more than 440 military vehicles and other assets.
- TotalEnergies Eyes Massive Profit Windfall as Refining Margins Soar Yemen's Houthis said Wednesday they will resume attacks on Saudi airports and oil facilities "in the coming days," after Saudi authorities reported a limited fire at Aramco's office complex in Dhahran during a Houthi missile attack Tuesday night.
- The General Directorate of Civil Defence said two women, a man and a child were injured by debris from two intercepted cruise missiles in Riyadh, which also caused "limited material damage" to 15 homes in the city.
- Bloomberg reported that the post said the group was "purposefully trying to drive up Oil Prices" at Iran's direction before the Nov. 3 midterms.