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Ansar Allah say they launched an attack on Saudi Ras Tanura oil refinery

 


DUBAI:  Yemen's Ansar Allah said on Tuesday ​they had ​launched an attack on Saudi Arabia's Ras Tanura oil refinery, the biggest in the kingdom, located on the Gulf west of the ⁠Strait of Hormuz.
The group's military ⁠spokesperson Yahya Saree said in a statement that the ballistic missile attack caused a ‌fire at the site. ​The Saudi ⁠authorities have not confirmed ​the attack.
The Houthi militia ‌have escalated their attacks on Saudi Arabia since ​September, opening another volatile front in the wider US-Israeli war on Iran.
Nearly all of Saudi Arabia's oil exports flow ‌through two main ports: Ras Tanura in ​the Gulf and Yanbu on the ​Red ‌Sea, which ⁠the Ansar Allah have attacked in the past.
Bloomberg News reported on ​Tuesday, citing a person ⁠familiar with the ​matter, that Saudi Arabia had contained a fire near the oil terminal at Ras Tanura in the ​early hours of the ​day.