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Saudi oil pumping stations, Riyadh airport attacked: Ansar Allah

Riyadh City
 
Riyadh City

Yemen's Ansar Allah said on Monday they had attacked Saudi Arabia's East-West crude oil pumping stations and Riyadh airport, as rising hostilities choke oil supplies and threaten to erupt into a larger conflict.
The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said earlier it had destroyed two ballistic missile launchers in the capital Sanaa, including one used to ⁠fire a missile towards Riyadh that the coalition said it had intercepted.
There was no immediate Saudi confirmation ⁠of the Ansar Allah attacks.
The Ansar Allah have been firing ballistic missiles and drones at Saudi airports, ports and oil installations, turning US ally Saudi Arabia into a pressure point in the wider war.
The Ansar Allah also said they had struck Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport, which resumed ‌operations at two terminals on Sunday after an attack claimed by ​the group earlier this month killed ⁠13 people, the deadliest in the kingdom in more than a decade.
Top officials from ​the Mecca Pact countries Saudi Arabia, Turkey and ‌Pakistan are set to meet Iranian officials in Tehran on Monday to discuss regional coordination, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
The planned talks would be the ​first high-level contact between Iran and all members of the three-nation bloc since Saudi Arabia came under escalating attacks.
The Saudi coalition said on Monday it had also carried out a military operation against Ansar Allah targets in Yemen, destroying five tunnels used to store ballistic missiles, four ballistic missile launchers and a missile storage facility.