Saudi-led coalition says it intercepts missiles and a drone
The reported interceptions coincide with an announced airport reopening, while the UN warns that time is running out to deliver aid to 800,000 people trapped in Taiz.
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The reported interceptions coincide with an announced airport reopening, while the UN warns that time is running out to deliver aid to 800,000 people trapped in Taiz.
The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted Houthi missiles and a drone aimed at Riyadh and southern Saudi Arabia on October 25. Saudi Civil Defence said debris from intercepted missiles wounded two people and damaged three buildings and seven vehicles.
Saudi Arabia supports Yemen’s government forces in their war with the Houthis, an armed group. Coalition spokesman Major-General Turki al-Maliki said forces destroyed a ballistic missile launched towards Riyadh that morning, a drone in the Riyadh region and a cruise missile aimed at the southwestern city of Khamis Mushait, as well as a total of 10 ballistic missiles aimed at the southern region.
Saudi authorities said debris from the interception of two ballistic missiles in Khamis Mushait and Ahad Rafida governorates wounded a Saudi citizen and a resident from an unspecified Asian country. Civil Defence attributed the missiles to Yemen’s Houthis and said the debris also damaged three buildings and seven vehicles.
Civil Defence also said shrapnel from two intercepted ballistic missiles suspected to have been fired by the Houthis fell in Jeddah, Taif, Rabigh and Wadi Al-Mughammas in Mecca province.
King Khalid International Airport said terminals 1 and 2 opened for domestic and international flights on October 25, after limited domestic services had already resumed. The airport had announced on October 24 that Terminal 2 would handle international flights and Terminal 1 domestic flights. Operations were halted after an October 10 Houthi attack that Al Jazeera said killed 13 people and wounded more than 300.
The October 26 vote empowers President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to support Saudi defence on request. He says any military action would protect Saudi territory and borders, not strike Yemen.
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Fortune put the toll from early-October strikes at 17 dead and more than 330 wounded, and said they hit a complex housing two other terminals. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree warned international, regional and local airlines, airport staff and travellers against using the airport, calling it “unsafe” and a “military target”. Flights resumed as missile and drone attacks towards Riyadh continued.
In Yemen, Houthi forces advanced on October 25 on Jabal Sabr, a strategic mountain overlooking Taiz. The city has become a focus of fighting between the Houthis and government forces. Houthi fighters have besieged Taiz and cut off its main road to Aden, the interim capital of Yemen’s internationally recognised government.
Fortune said families in Taiz had begun rationing water and grocery shortages had sent prices soaring. The United Nations warned that “time is running out” to deliver aid to 800,000 people trapped in the city.
The coalition says it attacked a Houthi missile depot and that Saudi air defences intercepted a missile headed for Riyadh; the Houthis claim strikes on Saudi oil facilities and targets in Yemen.
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In September, unnamed US officials described a joint command helping Saudi officers use a superintelligence (SI)-assisted tool to monitor the battlefield.
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