Saudi airstrikes hit Yemen's Houthis after Jiddah attack
Source: AP
By AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY
SANAA, Yemen (AP) A Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen unleashed a barrage of airstrikes on the capital and a strategic Red Sea city, officials said Saturday. At least seven people were killed.
The overnight airstrikes on Sanaa and Hodeida both held by the Houthis came a day after the rebels attacked an oil depot in the Saudi city of Jiddah, their highest-profile assault yet on the kingdom.
Brig. Gen. Turki al-Malki, a spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, said the strikes targeted sources of threat to Saudi Arabia, according to the state-run Saudi Press Agency.
He said the coalition intercepted and destroyed two explosives-laden drones early Saturday. He said the drones were launched from Houthi-held civilian oil facilities in Hodeida, urging civilians to stay away from oil facilities in the city.
A passenger airplane flies over a smoldering fire at a Saudi Aramco oil depot after a Yemen Houthi rebel attack, ahead of a Formula One race as the sun rises in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, March 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Lovie777
(11,986 posts)It's 2022 and honestly it seems the world is going backwards.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)under the shade of the foul, black, stinking, polluting smoke rising from the blazing ruins of the industry that provides that gas.
Beyond Irony.
oldsoftie
(12,409 posts)The Houthis are a threat to the world oil supply at a time when every producer is very important. Supply the legitimate Yemeni govt forces with whatever they need to finally eradicate these pests.
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)oldsoftie
(12,409 posts)Trying to overthrow the legitimate government of Yemen. It is they who bear most responsibility. Just another Sunni-Shiite shitshow
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Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)Why is America supporting a dictatorship, come again??
Reuters and AP, its good question for your journos.
Side bar
why is the west not also taking in hundreds of thousands of Yemeni refugees the American weapons help create?
Polybius
(15,235 posts)The risk is too great; We would have to do years of background checks and screenings, which could prove very difficult. Al Qaeda still operates with immunity there.
JI7
(89,172 posts)It's like blaming the US for the war in Ukraine (which many in the usual crowd do) because we are sending weapons there.