A correspondent for AFP news agency reported that queues formed at petrol stations in Sanaa on Tuesday afternoon following the coalition’s warning of an impending operation against the al-Sabaha oil facility, with many residents worried about shortages. The Yemen Petroleum Company, which is run by the Houthis, issued a statement that sought to reassure them,
There was no immediate comment from the Houthis. On Sunday evening, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said in a video statement that its forces had launched missiles and drones at Riyadh and Dammam’s airports, as well as two oil and gas facilities in Eastern Province, in response to 124 Saudi air strikes in Yemen over
Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois, a Democrat, opposed the sale on Thursday. He warned “it could put the crown jewels of American military technology within reach of the Chinese Communist Party”. Other Democratic lawmakers and some American defence officials have raised similar concerns about giving F-35s to Saudi Arabia. They said Riyadh might share the
In one of several video clips released by the Houthis, men with assault rifles can be seen at the crash site inspecting the wreckage. The fighters celebrate as they lift the jet’s almost-intact tail fin which features the Saudi flag and a four-digit serial number. The fate of of the crew is not known. The
The Houthis have recently seized control of large swathes of Yemen’s Red Sea coast from Saudi-backed pro-government forces. Last week, they captured the strategic port city of Mokha and Perim Island in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, the southern gateway to a key shipping route that links Asia and Europe via the Red Sea and the
Satellite imagery shows a key oil pipeline in Saudi Arabia has been badly damaged after a strike last week, which experts have told BBC Verify could take more than a month to repair and force oil prices even higher. The image shows the most significant damage is at a pumping station along the East-West Pipeline,
