[UPDATE] Houthi missiles hit Riyadh, burning a fuel depot near King Khalid airport
First air-raid sirens in the Saudi capital since the July escalation.
Houthi missiles and drones set a fuel depot on fire near Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport early Saturday, Sept. 19. Flights were delayed. It was the Saudi capital's first air-raid alert since July. The Saudi-led coalition said it shot down one ballistic missile over the city. It said it also stopped attacks on Yanbu, Taif, Baysh and Farasan.
PREVIOUSLY
- Sep. 9 — Houthi missiles and drones hit four Saudi cities, wounded 73 and halted Aramco's 400,000-barrel-a-day Jazan refinery.
- Sep. 10 — Brent passed $100 a barrel and US diesel reached $5.94 a gallon.
- Sep. 11-12 — Houthi forces took Mokha and Perim island in the Bab el-Mandeb strait; Saudi Arabia shut its 7-million-barrel-a-day East-West pipeline after Iraqi drone strikes.
- Sep. 14 — Oil rose more than $3 with four percent of world supply at risk.
- Sep. 16 — Aramco suspended loadings at Yanbu, its last open terminal, and cancelled September cargoes; supertanker hire passed $1 million a day.
- Sep. 17 — Debris from an intercepted Houthi drone killed a Yemeni resident in Saudi Arabia, the first civilian death.
- Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree claims 300 Saudi air strikes across Yemen in one week; the Washington Examiner counts 26 in a 24-hour span.
- 48 killed Saturday, Sept. 19, in Houthi-government fighting — 31 Houthi fighters and 17 government soldiers, per AFP.
- 104,796 people displaced by the recent fighting, per the UN's International Organization for Migration.