"Aramco and Riyadh".. Houthis: We carried out attacks against "sensitive targets" in Saudi Arabia

- The Houthi group in Yemen announced on Saturday that it had carried out attacks against "sensitive targets" in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, in addition to targeting the Aramco company in the coastal city of Yanbu on the Red Sea in western Saudi Arabia. The military spokesman for the Iran-backed group, Yahya Saree, published a statement on social media, stating that the attacks were in response to the "Saudi aggression."

The statement mentioned that 732 Saudi airstrikes targeted areas controlled by the Houthis. The Houthis also indicated in their statement that the operations targeting Riyadh and the Aramco facility in Yanbu were carried out "with a large number of ballistic and cruise missiles and drones."

Last week, Saudi Arabia announced that the Houthis attempted to target the city of Mecca with a drone, which provoked an angry reaction from Arab and Islamic countries due to the attempt to target the holiest city in Islam. The spokesman for the Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen, Major General Turki Al-Maliki, stated at the time: "The Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces managed to intercept and destroy an enemy drone launched by the Houthi terrorist militia before it entered the restricted airspace of the holy capital, Mecca, and the hostile drone was intercepted south of the city of Mecca."