{"id":56382,"date":"2026-10-08T10:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=56382"},"modified":"2026-10-08T10:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:27:06","slug":"yemens-houthis-say-struck-airport-in-saudi-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/yemens-houthis-say-struck-airport-in-saudi-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen’s Houthis say struck airport in Saudi capital"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yemen’s Houthis said Thursday that they struck the Saudi capital’s main international airport with a ballistic missile, in another attack on the kingdom claimed by the Iran-backed group.<\/p>\n

The claim came a day after the anti-government fighters said they launched a series of attacks in Saudi Arabia that killed three people, and after the Riyadh-backed Yemeni government announced a major counter-offensive against the Houthis.<\/p>\n

The Houthis, who control most of the country’s northwest, are battling against the Yemeni government for territory after the civil war reignited in July.<\/p>\n

“Our armed forces successfully targeted King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh with a ballistic missile, which accurately struck its target and disrupted airport operations,” Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said on X.<\/p>\n

This marks the third time this week that the group has claimed responsibility for an attack on the airport.<\/p>\n

“We reiterate our call and warning — for the last time — to all international airlines against continuing to operate flights through Saudi airspace,” Saree added.<\/p>\n

The fighting has displaced more than 200,000 people within the country, the United Nations said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Yemen’s internationally recognised government this week declared a major counter-offensive and claims to have pushed Houthi fighters out of strategic areas on the Red Sea and the port city of Mocha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yemen’s Houthis said Thursday that they struck the Saudi capital’s main international airport with a ballistic missile, in another attack on the kingdom claimed by the Iran-backed group. The claim came a day after the anti-government fighters said they launched a series of attacks in Saudi Arabia that killed three people, and after the Riyadh-backed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56382","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\/56382"}],"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=56382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56383,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56382\/revisions\/56383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}