Yemen’s Houthi rebels launch attacks on Aramco facility: Saudi-led coalition

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Yemen's Houthi rebels launch attacks on Aramco facility: Saudi-led coalition

Mar 20, 2022: Saudi state media reported that Yemeni Houthi rebels have carried out drone and missile attacks on Saudi Arabia, targeting liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants, water purification plants, oil facilities and power stations.

The Saudi-led military coalition fighting in Yemen said Sunday morning’s attacks did not cause any casualties, but did damage civilian vehicles and homes in the area.

A spokesman for Iran-backed Houthi rebels, Yehia Sarie, said “a wide and large military operation into the depth of Saudi Arabia has been launched”, without immediately elaborating.

Meanwhile the Saudi led military coaliton said it thwarted an attack on an LNG plant at a petrochemicals complex in the Red Sea port city of Yanbu run by the Saudi Arabian Oil Co, better known as Aramco. It was not immediately clear if the attack had inflicted any damage on the plant.

Other aerial attacks targeted a power station in the country’s southwest, a desalination facility in Al-Shaqeeq on the Red Sea coast, an Aramco terminal in the southern border town of Jizan and a gas station in the southern city of Khamis Mushait, the coalition said.

The state-run Saudi Press Agency posted various images of fire trucks extinguishing flames bouncing off water hoses, as well as drones and ballistic missile strikes, leaving cars and pits allegedly destroyed on the ground. The incident comes after the Saudi-based Gulf Cooperation Council invited Yemen’s warring factions to Riyadh for talks aimed at ending the nearly eight-year-old war.

The Houthis have said they will only take part in talks in a neutral country and that the blockade of the Allies on areas occupied by the priority group should be lifted.

There has been no headway in peace talks since the Houthis have tried to capture oil-rich Marib, one of the last remaining strongholds of the Saudi-backed Yemeni government in the country’s north.

Houthi rebels often target airports and oil installations in Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter. The Yemeni militant group has also carried out several attacks in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) this year as it has stepped up attacks against two oil-rich Gulf states.

Riyadh and Abu Dhabi are the leading members of the military alliance involved in the Yemeni war after the Houthi rebels captured the capital Sanaa and much of the north. The UAE withdrew troops from the country in 2019 but is an active player.

The latest attack comes as Aramco prepares to announce its 2021 results on Sunday, with global oil markets are in a state of disarray over the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the effect it will have on energy supplies.

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