Yemen's Houthis say they attacked Saudi oil tanker in Red Sea

Yemen's Houthis say they attacked Saudi oil tanker in Red Sea  Reuters

Crude prices rose Wednesday after Yemen's Houthis claimed they had struck a Saudi Arabian oil tanker in the Red Sea.

Yemen’s Houthi militant group said it would attack Saudi oil tankers in the northern Red Sea, a potential fresh escalation in its attacks on shipping.

Yemen's Houthis say they attacked oil tanker off Saudi coast Yemen's Houthis said on Wednesday that they had attacked a Saudi oil tanker with missiles off the coast of the Saudi port city of Yanbu, on the north of the Saudi Red Sea coast. The group's military spokesperson did not confirm when the attack took plac

The Houthis said the strike was in response to what they described as Saudi drone incursions into the airspace over the Saada and Hajjah governorates in northwestern Yemen.

The Yemeni militant group, the Houthis, have claimed that they struck the Najran Airport in Saudi Arabia.