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Why are the Houthis striking Saudi airports?



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xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoKing Khalid International Airport in Riyadh just before Saturday's attack [Saudi Ministry of Media/Handout via Reuters]By Al Jazeera StaffPublished On 12 Oct 202612 Oct 2026Yemen’s Houthis have claimed responsibility for Sunday’s attack that killed one person and injured nearly a dozen others at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh – the day after another attack killed 13 people and wounded more than 300.

The attacks mark one of the most significant disruptions to Saudi civil aviation in years and the deadliest assault on Saudi soil in more than a decade, as Yemeni government forces are also targeting airfields in Houthi-controlled territory.

The sharp escalation in the war’s new front comes amid fighting between the Iran-aligned Houthis and Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces, following the collapse of a United Nations-brokered ceasefire largely in place since 2022.

Yes. Houthi-run media on Sunday reported “Saudi” air strikes targeting areas in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, held by the Iran-backed armed group.

The reports said the attacks targeted the Airport Road area of Sanaa’s al-Thawra district, as well as the Hamdan district. There was no information on the results of those attacks.

Yemeni government forces backed by Saudi Arabia also hit Sanaa airport on July 13 with at least five munitions in a series of air attacks, three of which directly struck the only working runway.

The Houthis have controlled Sanaa and parts of northwestern Yemen since 2014. Battles are raging around the southern cities of Mocha and Dhubab, which are on the Red Sea coast and strategically important for control of the Bab al-Mandeb strait.

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