Yemen's Houthis say they attacked Saudi Aramco Jazan refinery, fire extinguished

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.

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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.

The group's military spokesman Yahya Saree said the Houthis had "succeeded in targeting the Aramco refinery in Jazan with a drone, and the strike was precise".

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis claim a drone attack on a Red Sea Coast refinery in Saudi Arabia. Attacks from the armed group have increased since the 2022 truce seems to have been broken last month.

Yemeni troops conducted a military operation targeting Iran-backed Huthi militants on Saturday. A spokesperson for the country’s armed forces condemned the group, saying it has “dragged Yemen into regional conflicts in service of foreign agendas and schemes.” The Huthis are among several Iranian proxies that have threa

No casualties were reported after the flames broke out early on Sunday, the Saudi Energy Ministry says.

Earlier, the Saudi Arabian Energy Ministry said that firefighters extinguished a fire that broke out early at a facility at Aramco's Jazan refinery in southwestern Saudi Arabia.

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Yemen’s Houthis say they attacked an oil facility in southwestern Saudi Arabia

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

Houthis claim attack on Saudi Aramco's Jizan refinery Yemen's Houthis have claimed a drone attack on Saudi Aramco's refinery in Jizan, saying the attack was in response to Saudi drone attacks on Yemen’s Saada and Hajjah provinces, according to Al Masirah TV. Saudi Arabia's ministry of energy earlier said firefigh

Fire broke out early Sunday at a Saudi Aramco facility in Jazan. (Photo: AP)Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebels were behind a reported attack on a gas facility in Saudi Arabia’s Jubail region, Israeli media reported on Sunday, amid heightened tensions in the Middle East. However, there was no immediate official confirma

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

A U.S. official, who declined to be identified, said on Friday that Washington anticipated an agreement soon between Iran and Oman, which sit on either side of the strait, so that normal oil traffic could resume.

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The agreement stipulates that an armed attack against any of the three would be regarded as an attack on all.

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Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed a joint defense deal. According to the agreement, an armed attack on any one of the three countries will be regarded as an attack against all of them. Follow DW for the latest.

The INS Vagir is commissioned at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai, India, on Jan. 23, 2023. India has taken the lead in its nuclear arms race against Pakistan. © ReutersFarhan Bokhari is an Islamabad-based foreign correspondent covering Pakistan and the surrounding region.

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis killed at least 58 government troops in missile and drone attacks on Thursday, a military source said, in one of the deadliest days of the country’s civil war in four years. The attacks come as Yemen is increasingly drawn into the US-Israeli war with Iran, with the rebels stepping up attacks

Officials believe important economic sites will be hit in a series of attacks overseen by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the days after Saudi Arabia teamed up with the US for air strikes

Officials believe attacks on the country could come from the north and south

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"Interlocking conflicts have accelerated the breakdown of the regional order," one expert told Newsweek.