The spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition supporting Yemen’s government said Houthi claims that Riyadh was being targeted are “misleading.”
Published on October 4, 2026
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Updated: 4 hours ago
Yemen’s Houthis said they attacked an Aramco facility in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, as fighting between the Iran-aligned group and Yemen’s internationally recognized, Saudi-backed government intensifies.
In a statement published on X on Saturday, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the group carried out a “military operation with ballistic missiles and drones” that targeted Aramco in Riyadh.
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He said the strikes were “precise and direct” and “caused fires” at the site. A large plume of smoke and fire were seen rising near an Aramco facility in Riyadh on Saturday.
Later Saturday, Turki al-Maliki, a spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition that supports Yemen’s government, said in remarks carried by Saudi media that the Houthis’ claims that Riyadh were “misleading.”
Early Sunday, the Saudi-led coalition said its armed forces had carried out 97 “precise targeting operations” against Houthi reinforcements on the Tor al-Baha front and Taiz axis, using warplanes, drones, artillery, missiles and snipers.
Col. Majed Abdullah al-Nazili, a spokesman for Yemeni government forces, said the attacks targeted “at least 260 Houthi fighters and destroyed or neutralized 44 military vehicles.”
Late last month, the Houthis said they had attacked Aramco facilities in Yanbu, a Red Sea port on Saudi Arabia’s west coast.
Saudi Arabia said at the time that it had intercepted six ballistic missiles fired towards Taif and Yanbu and reported no damage to 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 broke down in July.
In mid-September, the Houthis seized the port city of Mocha and strategic islands in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, a vital route for global oil shipments, before anti-Houthi forces stabilized the front lines.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced since fighting resumed.
Yemen has been at war since the Houthis seized Sanaa in 2014, forcing the Yemeni government to retreat to Aden.
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