The spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition supporting Yemen’s government says the Houthis’ claims to attack Riyadh are “misleading.” Posted on October 4, 2026 October 4, 2026 | Updated: 4 hours ago Updated: 4 hours ago Yemen’s Houthis have said they attacked an Aramco facility in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, as they fight between the Iran-aligned group and Yemen’s internationally recognized, Saudi-backed government. It intensifies. In a statement published in X on Saturday, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the group had carried out a “military operation with ballistic missiles and drones” targeting Aramco in Riyadh. Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of list He stated that the attacks were “precise and direct” and “caused fires” in the area. A large column of smoke and fire was seen rising near an Aramco facility in Riyadh on Saturday. Later on Saturday, Turki al-Maliki, spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition supporting Yemen’s government, said in remarks carried by Saudi media that the Houthis’ claims of attacking Riyadh were “misleading.” front and the Taiz axis, using fighter aircraft, drones, artillery, missiles and snipers. Col. Majed Abdullah al-Nazili, spokesman for Yemen’s government forces, said the attacks targeted “at least 260 Houthi fighters and destroyed or disabled 44 military vehicles.” Late last month, the Houthis said they had attacked Aramco facilities in Yanbu, a Red Sea port on Saudi Arabia’s western coast. Saudi Arabia said at the time it intercepted six ballistic missiles fired toward Taif and Yanbu and reported no damage to the Aramco sites. Earlier this week, the Saudi-led coalition said the Houthis attacked a power plant in the Muslim holy city of Medina on Tuesday. Fighting has intensified since a fragile 2022 truce collapsed in July. shipments, before anti-Houthi forces stabilized the front lines. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced since fighting restarted. Yemen has been at war since the Houthis seized Sanaa in 2014, forcing the Yemeni government to retreat to Aden.
