Attacks escalate between Saudi-led forces and Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis
Saudi Arabia says it intercepted missiles fired by the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen as attacks between them escalate. An oil company building in Sanaa was struck overnight on Monday, a day after a Houthi attack damaged an Aramco office in Riyadh.
Saudi forces intercept two missiles fired towards Riyadh, hours after reporting damage to key East-West pipeline.
The death toll from Saudi strikes on Yemen’s Sanaa province climbed to 44, including more than 20 children, the Houthis said on their television channel Monday. “The toll from the Saudi enemy’s massacre in the Alshariyah area of Bani Hushaysh, east of Sanaa, has risen to 84 casualties: 44 martyrs and 40 wounded,” the Houthis’ ministry of health said, according to the group’s Almasirah TV channel.
Yemeni forces claim fresh advances across key fronts as cross-border Houthi attacks surge amid heavy clashes.
The oil pipeline runs through the desert to the coast and is essential for bypassing the Strait of Hormuz.
Syrian officials deny reports Damascus is sending troops to Yemen, but Syrian security integration appears under way
Iran has denied any links to specific attacks in Britain, but its Revolutionary Guards have said airbases used by US forces there and in other countries are legitimate targets.