American citizen among the dead in latest Houthi attack on Riyadh airport, Rubio says
Saudi authorities said 309 people were wounded and flights were diverted after the missile strike on the airport complex.
- On Saturday, a Houthi attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh killed 12 people and wounded 309, according to Saudi authorities. This marked the third strike on the facility this week, temporarily suspending airport operations.
- The strike occurred as Iran-backed Houthi forces escalated their campaign following a Saudi-backed Yemeni government offensive that began Monday. The conflict has generated hundreds of strikes across Houthi-held areas in recent weeks.
- Without warning, the strike killed four Saudis, two Bangladeshis, and nationals from the United States, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Sudan, and Egypt. The kingdom's threat detection system failed to issue an alert.
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned the raids as showing "a blatant disregard for innocent civilian life," while the Saudi-led coalition vowed to respond. President Donald Trump said his administration would decide quickly on joining strikes.
- Travel was disrupted shortly before Riyadh is scheduled to host major energy and investment conferences at an airport serving eight million people. Organizers stated prior to the attack that events would proceed as planned.
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Attack on Riyadh airport this Saturday is the deadliest since August 2015, when a suicide attack by the Islamic State jihadist group killed 15 people in a mosque in a barracks in the south of the country.
Saudi Arabia is still recovering from the deadliest attack on its territory in a decade. At least 12 people are believed to have been killed and 309 others wounded after an attack by the Iran-aligned Houthis on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport, according to the latest official figures. This is the second attack by the Houthis on Riyadh's airport in the past 24 hours and the latest move in a war that has now fully reopened between the H…
The Saudi Arabia-led Arab Coalition has declared the attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen a "terrorist act" and will be met with a "decisive response."
The conflict with the pro-Iranian Huthi militia has continued to escalate with a major missile attack on the Saudi capital airport. The US does not want to rule out intervention.
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