{"id":55063,"date":"2026-09-15T09:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T03:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=55063"},"modified":"2026-09-15T09:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T03:18:18","slug":"houthis-strike-saudi-targets-anew-as-talks-over-strait-of-hormuz-stall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/houthis-strike-saudi-targets-anew-as-talks-over-strait-of-hormuz-stall\/","title":{"rendered":"Houthis strike Saudi targets anew as talks over Strait of Hormuz stall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Reuters :\u00a0 Yemen&#8217;s Iran-aligned Houthis launched a new wave of attacks on Saudi Arabia and were digging into positions on the western coast of Yemen along the Red Sea, Yemeni \u200bofficials said, as urgent deliberations took place in Riyadh over how to respond to their lightning advance.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Gulf Arab states postponed planned talks with Iran, raising concerns the \u200cMiddle East conflict could spread further and threaten global oil supplies.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthis on Monday said they fired dozens of missiles and drones at a military airbase in Khamis Mushait in southern Saudi Arabia, targeting aircraft hangars, radar systems, runways and ammunition depots in retaliation for Saudi airstrikes in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi authorities issued emergency alerts there and in three other southern cities. Thirteen civilians were wounded in the Houthi attacks, the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthi advances in recent \u200bdays, including the taking of Perim Island at the mouth of the Red Sea, have put further pressure on Saudi oil exports after an aerial attack on Thursday knocked Saudi \u200bArabia&#8217;s east-west pipeline offline. Riyadh blamed the pipeline attack on Iranian-backed militias in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia built the 1,200-kilometer (745-mile) pipeline across its territory from the Gulf \u2060to the Red Sea in the 1980s to bypass the Strait of Hormuz when it came under threat from the Iran-Iraq war at that time.<\/p>\n<p>Traders said a prolonged shutdown of the Saudi pipeline \u200bcould cut off as much as 4% of global oil supply while the strait is largely blockaded. Riyadh has not said when operations might resume.<br \/>\nResponding to the Houthi offensive, the Saudi and Yemeni air forces have stepped \u200bup aerial bombardment of Houthi targets, including around the historic Red Sea port of Mocha, but the Houthis have maintained effective control over almost the entire western coast of the country along the Red Sea, the officials with Yemen&#8217;s internationally recognised government said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Houthis are being put under heavy pressure. They in turn are putting more and more pressure on the Saudis, increasing their campaign of missile and drone attacks,\u201d one of the Yemeni officials said.Crude oil prices \u200brose more than 4% on Monday before settling about 1% higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters :\u00a0 Yemen&#8217;s Iran-aligned Houthis launched a new wave of attacks on Saudi Arabia and were digging into positions on the western coast of Yemen along the Red Sea, Yemeni \u200bofficials said, as urgent deliberations took place in Riyadh over how to respond to their lightning advance. Meanwhile, Gulf Arab states postponed planned talks with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55065,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55063\/revisions\/55065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}