Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said on Sunday (August 9, 2026) they had struck an oil facility on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast after the Gulf kingdom said it had extinguished a fire at the site.
Political Context
The Ministry did not immediately specify the cause of the fire. A 2022 truce in Yemen’s civil war, which Saudi Arabia entered more than a decade ago on the side of the internationally recognised government, appeared to collapse last month.
“No injuries were reported,” the Saudi Energy Ministry said in a post on X, adding that the “relevant authorities were completing the necessary procedures to deal with the incident”. The group’s military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the Houthis had “succeeded in targeting the Aramco refinery in Jazan with a drone, and the strike was precise”.
