Ansar Allah warn passengers not to use Saudi airports after Riyadh attack
Published: 08:10 AM,Oct 11,2026 | EDITED : 12:10 PM,Oct 11,2026
Yemen's Ansar Allah on Sunday warned passengers against using Saudi airports after an attack on the airport in the capital Riyadh left 12 people dead and hundreds wounded.
'The Yemeni armed forces renew their warning to all aviation and navigation companies, experts, staff, workers, and travellers against using Saudi airports and airspace,' Ansar Allah military spokesman Yahya Saree said on X.
'The airports and airspace are exposed to targeting and constitute a theatre of operations for our forces, with the exception of the airports of Mecca and Medina,' he added, referring to the two holiest cities in Islam.