WASHINGTON — The US Embassy in Riyadh issued a fresh security alert on Friday warning that Houthi hostilities against Saudi Arabia “have
MoreJEDDAH — Saudi Arabia’s coalition intercepted and destroyed a Houthi drone heading toward the Makkah region on Thursday, the second time in
MoreRIYADH — The Saudi-led coalition carried out 101 airstrikes and missile attacks across nine Yemeni provinces in a single 24-hour period ending
MoreDHAHRAN — Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree claimed on Tuesday that Yemeni armed forces fired a ballistic missile at Saudi Arabia’s Ras
MoreTEHRAN — Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran on Monday alongside Pakistan’s army chief
MoreJEDDAH — Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree claimed on Saturday that Houthi forces had targeted the Rabigh oil refinery, crude oil pumping
MoreRIYADH — Saudi forces struck Sanaa and the port city of Mocha on October 24, Houthi-linked broadcaster Al-Masirah reported via AFP, with
MoreRIYADH — The Saudi-led coalition intercepted a Houthi ballistic missile aimed at Riyadh on October 24, at least the sixth reported date
MoreTEHRAN — Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi offered to mediate between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis on October 11, then repeated the
MoreDHAHRAN — Brent crude touched $114.47 per barrel at 0639 GMT on Wednesday, its highest level since May, after Houthis claimed strikes
MoreDHAHRAN — Saudi Arabia’s government raised its 2026 budget deficit projection to SAR 245 billion ($65.3 billion), 48% above the original figure,
MoreCorrection, October 24, 2026: An earlier version of this article said in its headline that this was Riyadh’s 4th alert of October;
MoreRIYADH — The Houthis claimed on October 22 to have struck the Saudi Defense Ministry in Riyadh, the first time the group
MoreLONDON — Admiral Brad Cooper declared on 27 August that US forces had cleared Iranian sea mines from the internationally recognised shipping
MoreCorrection, October 23, 2026: This article first said the October 21 attack killed one person, GACA’s initial figure; GACA later raised the
MoreADEN — Houthi forces have occupied Mayyun Island — the 13-square-kilometre volcanic outcrop that divides the Bab el-Mandeb Strait into two shipping
MoreTEHRAN — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on 21 October that the Strait of Hormuz “will remain closed” until Washington accepts
MoreLONDON — Britain committed RAF Typhoon fighter jets to defend Saudi cities against Houthi drone and missile attacks on 20 October, a
MoreRIYADH — Brigadier-General Hossein Mohebbi, the IRGC’s spokesman, stood in Tehran’s Sacred Defence Museum on 19 October and told Iran’s state television
MoreABU DHABI — The Gulf’s anti-Iran front is split between a country seeking to defeat Iran and a country seeking to accommodate
MoreTEHRAN — Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi told the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Baghdad on October 18 that the Strait of
MoreLONDON — The same week that Britain’s maritime trade watchdog published the highest sustained rate of attacks on commercial shipping since the
MoreRIYADH — On October 5, Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman announced the activation of “collective deterrence measures within the framework
MoreRIYADH — The second EU-GCC summit, scheduled for 24 October in Riyadh, was formally postponed on 15 October with no new date
MoreDHAHRAN — Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree declared on 14 October that operations against Saudi territory would continue “in the coming days,”
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