Sanaa, October 4, 2026 (Yes Punjab News)
Yemen’s Houthi group has claimed responsibility for fresh ballistic missile and drone attacks targeting two Saudi Aramco facilities, including the Khurais oil complex southeast of Riyadh, in another escalation of cross-border hostilities between the two sides.
Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said the group carried out two separate operations using “a number of ballistic missiles and drones”. According to a statement broadcast by Houthi-run al-Masirah TV, one operation targeted an Aramco facility in Riyadh, while the other targeted the company’s oil facilities at Khurais.
Sarea claimed that both operations “achieved their objectives”, alleging that the attacks caused large fires after precise strikes. The claims could not be independently verified, and there was no immediate response from Saudi authorities or Saudi Aramco.
The Houthi spokesperson said the attacks were carried out in response to what the group described as continuing Saudi air and missile strikes on areas under Houthi control in Yemen.
He claimed that 50 Saudi air and missile strikes had targeted Sanaa and the provinces of Al-Jawf, Taiz, Amran, Hajjah and Saada during the preceding 12 hours. He put the total number of such strikes since the latest escalation began at 1,460.
Earlier, loud explosions were reported across Houthi-held Sanaa as al-Masirah TV reported renewed Saudi airstrikes on the capital.
A Sanaa resident told Xinhua News Agency on condition of anonymity that warplanes could be heard overhead as powerful blasts shook buildings and rattled windows late Saturday.
The latest exchanges come amid one of the sharpest escalations in Yemen’s conflict in years, with heavy fighting reported in southwestern areas and renewed missile, drone and air attacks reviving direct hostilities between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia.
Yemen’s conflict intensified in late 2014 after the Houthis seized Sanaa and large parts of northern Yemen. In March 2015, a Saudi-led coalition intervened in support of Yemen’s internationally recognised government.
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