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Plane damaged at Riyadh airport as Houthis escalate attacks, sources say

kathmandupost.com · Fri Oct 09 09:00:33 GMT 2026

The Houthis say they are targeting the kingdom over its support for government forces in Yemen’s reignited civil war.

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis escalated their campaign of strikes against Saudi Arabia on Thursday, trying to shut down the kingdom’s ​airspace and oil facilities with missile fire that has killed three people this week and left a plane badly damaged.

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