Houthis Strike Saudi Oil Sites on Red Sea Coast, Disrupting Global Supplies

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi militants have fired on Saudi oil installations in two ports on the Red Sea coast. The group targeted and successfully struck sites belonging to Saudi state oil giant Aramco in Jizan and Yanbu, according to a statement from Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree.

A video shared on social media showed a large column of smoke rising from the direction of the Aramco refinery in Jizan. Two Asia-based trading sources said they had been informed of potential damage to fuel and oil storage sites at Jizan.

In Yanbu, two ballistic missiles aimed at oil installations were intercepted by a U.S.-made Patriot battery operated in Saudi Arabia by the Greek military under an agreement with Riyadh.