A blocked Iranian flight to Yemen set off Houthis' latest spiral with Saudi Arabia

CAIRO (AP) — A volley of fire between the Iranian-backed Houthis and Saudi Arabia has threatened to upend a 2022 truce in Yemen and open another front in the already expanding war in the Middle East after the collapse of the ceasefire deal between the U.S. and Iran.

The Houthis fired on the southern Saudi region of Najran last week and on Saudi Aramco’s Jazan refinery on Sunday.

A volley of fire between the Iranian-backed Houthis and Saudi Arabia has threatened to upend a 2022 truce in Yemen and open another front in the already expanding war in the Middle East after the collapse of the ceasefire deal between the U.S. and Iran.

A blocked Iranian flight to Yemen set off Houthis’ latest spiral with Saudi Arabia  Toronto Star

An airstrike on July 13 hit the runway of Yemen's Sanaa airport, preventing an Iranian flight carrying a high-ranking Houthi delegation from landing

It's the Saudis who have to take the lead and logistical support from their Red Sea bases will be the backbone of the effort to stop the Houthis.

Yemen's Houthis Attack Saudi Refinery After Kingdom Signs Defense Pact  HuffPost

The drone attack on Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery coincides with Saudi Arabia's new defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan amid regional instability

Aramco previously shut down the refinery on July 27 following another Houthi attack.

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis have ⁠attacked Saudi Aramco’s Jazan refinery, they said on Sunday, two days after the kingdom signed a defence pact with Turkey and Pakistan in response to growing regional instability from the US-Israeli war on Iran. The alliance with Sunni Muslim US allies, Turkey and Pakistan, is intende

Red Sea crisis escalates with Houthi strikes on Yemen's Mokha port and Saudi Aramco refinery  thenationalnews.com

The Iran-backed Houthi terrorist group attacked an Aramco oil refinery in Saudi Arabia and a critical Red Sea port on Sunday, killing at least seven people, officials said.

At least 11 people were killed in Houthi missile and drone strikes on Mokha, as the Iran-backed group also targeted Saudi oil infrastructure on Sunday.

Drone strike comes after Riyadh signs defence pact and Tehran issues tough demands to reopen strait of Hormuz Middle East crisis live – latest updates Yemen’s Tehran-aligned Houthis have claimed responsibility for an attack on a refinery in Saudi Arabia, two days after the kingdom signed ⁠a defence pact with Turkey ⁠

Houthi attacks kill 11 in Yemen and target Saudi refinery Strikes by Yemen's Houthis on Sunday killed at least 11 people, a medical source in the Yemeni port city of Mokha has told AFP, after an earlier drone salvo targeted a Saudi oil refinery on the Red Sea coast. A years-long truce in Yemen's civil war between

Yemen's Houthis said they attacked an oil facility Sunday in southwestern Saudi Arabia, in the latest attack by the Iranian-backed rebels on the kingdom.

A US official said on Friday that an agreement between Iran and Oman was close and could reopen the strait, which carried a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas shipments before the war.

Yemen’s Houthis claim attack on Aramco oil facility in Saudi Arabia, and other Middle East news  apnews.com

Meanwhile, Iran has made new demands about the restart of negotiations and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and the Pentagon is pressing the U.S. defense industry to accelerate production of weapons.

Strikes by Iran-backed Houthi rebels on Sunday killed at least 11 people in the Yemeni port city of Mokha, says a medical source, after an earlier drone salvo targeted a Saudi oil refinery. Attacks from the armed group have increased since the 2022 truce seems to have been broken last month.

Aug 9 (Reuters) - Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said they had attacked Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery on Sunday, two days after the kingdom signed a defence pact with Turkey and Pakistan. The Saudi energy ministry said a fire had broken out at the refinery that was later extinguished, without saying what caused the fire.

An explosion and fire were reported at an industrial facility in the Saudi Arabia's eastern region on Sunday

Fire extinguished at Aramco refinery in Saudi Arabia's Jazan; Houthis claim attack  Dawn

A fire broke out at Saudi Aramco’s Jazan oil refinery early Sunday, and the blaze has been extinguished, the country’s energy ministry said.

Iran-backed Houthi rebels on Friday launched drone and missile attacks toward Saudi military targets in the eastern city of Marib, Yemen, raising concerns of a widening war in the region. Two people were killed and more than a dozen others wounded during the fresh strikes, according to the country’s state-run news agen

Pakistan's foreign ministry said the pact means an attack on any member would be regarded as an attack on all, adding it is ‘intended to strengthen collective deterrence’

Health Minister Qassem Bahaibah says 14 injured, accuses group of targeting residential areas and displacement camps.

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