The heaviest fighting since the Iran war began is taking place in Yemen currently, also involving significant overnight attacks on Saudi energy and military sites by the Houthis.
The Houthis have since unveiled new operations, in a Tuesday statement saying the Iran-aligned group is targeting critical Saudi oil and military infrastructure. Widely circulating local videos suggest the attacks on multiple sites were in some case simultaneous and overwhelming.
"In response to this brutal aggression and in confronting comprehensive escalation with comprehensive escalation, the YAF carried out a large-scale … operation, targeting Aramco facilities in Abha and Najran, the Economic City, Aramco in Jizan, and Khamis Mushait Air Base, using dozens of ballistic missiles and drones," said the Houthi statement.
Yemen state media/The Independent: Smoke billows from burning trucks on Yemen-Saudi border after claimed Houthi attack"The strikes, by God's grace, were accurate and direct and caused significant damage to those facilities," it added.
The kingdom's Energy Ministry has indeed acknowledged fires and operations stoppages at several sites as a result, as well as damage and injured personnel.
"Several energy sector facilities and installations in the southern region of the kingdom were targeted this morning," the energy ministry stated.
"The attacks caused fires at several locations, leading to a temporary halt in so
