Fallout Spreads Across the Middle East as the Iran War Grinds On
The group said two drones hit the 400,000-barrel-a-day refinery, and Saudi officials reported a fire that was extinguished without injuries.
- On Thursday, Yemen's Houthis launched a two-drone attack against Saudi Aramco's 400,000-barrel-per-day Jazan refinery, marking their second claimed strike on the facility in five days.
- The Houthi-run Sabaa News Agency reported the operation was retaliation for 'Saudi violations of Yemeni airspace and sovereignty in Saada and Hajjah,' citing the kingdom's actions in those provinces.
- Saudi Arabia's Energy Ministry reported a fire was 'extinguished without injuries' following the August 9 attack, while one person familiar with the matter described the current damage as negligible.
- According to industry monitor IIR, Aramco has postponed the refinery's restart to August 30 due to the recent attacks, which follow the group's declared maritime embargo on Saudi Arabia.
- Kpler estimates that about 70% of Saudi west coast loadings in recent weeks have 'gone dark,' with cargo vessels switching off Automatic Identification System signals to mitigate attack risks.
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This article was originally published on Cedarnews.net. For more news and exclusive reports, visit our website. The Houthi group in Yemen targeted a Saudi Aramco facility in the city of Najran, in the southwest of the Kingdom, according to Reuters. A Yemeni military source stated that the attack, carried out with a drone, was "in response to the Saudi warplanes' violation of Yemeni sovereignty and their incursion into the northeastern airspace o…
Houthi Rebels Claim to Have Attacked Saudi State-Run Oil Company Facilities for Two Consecutive Days
(Cairo=Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Sang-hoon = Yemen's pro-Iranian Houthi rebels claimed to have attacked facilities at Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company, Aramco, for two consecutive days.
According to a military source quoted by the Saba news agency, the strike targeted the Najran site, south-west of Saudi Arabia, "by means of a drone, and the operation achieved its objective".
The Houthis say they attacked a facility of the Saudi oil company Aramco with a drone. According to the Yemeni movement, that attack was a response to a violation of airspace by a Saudi military aircraft.
It has not yet been clarified whether Aramco's facilities in Najran were damaged.
A Yemeni source reported a drone attack by the country's armed forces against Saudi Aramco oil facilities.
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