...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i rebels, adversaries of Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...-led military coalition in Yemen, have repeatedly targeted the kingdom, including state-run oil company Aramco
Top crude exporter Saudi Arabia announced a "temporary reduction" in oil output at a facility run by energy giant Aramco on Sunday, after Yemen’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the
Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels launched multiple cross-border attacks.
A drone assault on the YASREF refinery, in the Yanbu Industrial City on the Red Sea, has "led to a temporary reduction in the refinery’s production, which will be compensated for from the inventory," the energy ministry said in a statement. There were no casualties, it added.
The statement cited a ministry official as saying two drone attacks at around 5:30 a.m. local time were launched at Yanbu’s gas plant and another on YASREF, which produces 400,000 barrels per day, according to its website.
The official condemned the attacks, saying they followed a Saturday "drone assault" on a petroleum products distribution terminal in Jizan in the south of the country.
The Iran-backed Houthis, against whom Saudi Arabia leads a military coalition in Yemen, have repeatedly targeted the kingdom, including Aramco’s sites.
The gunnies said on Sunday that they launched cross-border drone and missile attacks on the kingdom, targeting a number of "vital and important" establishments — including Aramco facilities.
The coalition, meanwhile, said it intercepted and destroyed ballistic missiles launched towards Jizan as well as nine armed drones targeting other areas in the kingdom.
"Initial investigations indicate the militia used Iranian cruise missiles that targeted al-Shaqeeq desalination plant and Aramco’s Jizan bulk plant," it said in a statement, adding other targets included a Dhahran al-Janoub power station, a gas station in Khamis Mushait, and an Aramco gas plant in Yanbu.
It said that the "hostile attacks" and scattered debris after interception caused "some material damage," without specifying which sites were damaged.
In 2019, aerial assaults on two Aramco facilities in the eastern region temporarily knocked out half of the kingdom’s crude production, underscoring the vulnerability of its infrastructure.
The latest round of attacks comes after an oil refinery in the Saudi capital Riyadh was targeted on March 10 by a drone, an operation claimed by the Houthis.
The Houthis days ago rejected an invitation from the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council to attend talks on the Yemen conflict, to be held in Riyadh between March 29 and April 7.