Trump blasts 'not nice' Houthis as attack hits Saudi Aramco facility
Saudi Arabia reported a limited fire at an Aramco facility following Houthi missile attacks, while the Saudi-led coalition retaliated with strikes on Houthi-held sites in Yemen. President Trump condemned the Houthi actions as the conflict in the region continues to escalate.
Why it matters
The ongoing conflict threatens global energy infrastructure and regional stability in the Middle East.
Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday that an attack on an Aramco building in the kingdom's east sparked a "limited fire," as US President Donald Trump slammed Yemen's Houthis for "behaving very badly."A Saudi energy ministry official said an administrative building belonging to oil giant Aramco in Dhahran was struck on Tuesday evening, resulting in a "limited fire" but "no casualties or fatalities".Saudi's civil defence agency separately said on Wednesday that debris from two intercepted Houthi missiles wounded four people in the capital Riyadh, and that 15 homes were damaged.Earlier on Tuesday, the coalition struck oil sites across western Yemen, in response to the deadliest attack on the kingdom's soil in years.The strikes in Yemen's Houthi-held capital Sana'a and the western provinces of Dhamar and Saada targeted facilities used to "supply the war effort" by the Houthis to "threaten the kingdom, Yemen, the southern Red Sea and waterways", coalition spokesman Turki…
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