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Posted on 09/19/2026 7:25:58 PM PDT by KingofZion
The Houthi militia in Yemen said on Saturday that it had attacked Saudi Arabia’s capital and oil facilities with a barrage of missiles and drones, a significant escalation in the renewed war between the kingdom and the Iranian-backed group.
The Saudis intercepted a Houthi missile launched toward Riyadh, the capital, according to Maj. Gen. Turki Al-Maliki, the spokesman for the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen.
He added in a statement that air defenses had fended off assaults on “civilians and civilian infrastructure” in several other cities in the kingdom, including coastal Yanbu, where the Houthis said they attacked oil facilities.
The Houthi strikes, the first on Riyadh in months, left the city on edge. Emergency alerts sounded in Riyadh earlier on Saturday, with residents reporting loud explosions, and flights were severely disrupted at the city’s airport. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
***Yahya Saree, a spokesman for the Houthi military, said the group had fired a “large number of ballistic and cruise missiles and drones” targeting “sensitive sites” in Riyadh and facilities for Saudi Arabia’s national oil company in Yanbu, a crucial Red Sea terminal.
***Starting in 2015, Saudi Arabia led a disastrous bombing campaign to rout the Houthis but failed to push the group out of power, leaving Yemen in the fragmented control of government forces and the militants. A truce reached in 2022 has unraveled amid worsening fighting in recent months, as the Houthis have sought to seize strategic territory in Yemen and enforce a naval blockade ,,,,
But the attacks on Riyadh were a “huge” escalation, said Farea Al-Muslimi, a Yemen specialist at Chatham House, a London-based research group. He said they reflected that the “Houthis are not going to stop anywhere,” particularly at a time when they feel emboldened by recent battlefield victories.
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>> What happened to the billions in weapons that we sold them?
Good question! Maybe they put ‘em on E-Bay.
Still, I pray the US and our allies wipe the Houthis clean off the face of the earth. By any means necessary. Eradicate them.
Yeah, I'd say that is pretty significant.
I heard a complaint that they were "shooting off [their anti-missile defenses] like candy" early in the conflict, and now are crying for replacements.
Maybe the article goes into more detail deeper in, but the strikes are known to have hit and closed 2 runways at the Riyadh airport (per airport authorities), as well as fuel storage tanks that were billowing large plumes of black smoke. So no, they did not block all the incoming missiles.
That’s the funny thing about wars, once you start them, you have no control over what happens.
Vietnam started as sending over a couple of advisors.
So they’ll seize Mecca, Medina and Riyadh?
That would be cool. Then we can blow them up along with that black rock they worship. Like Bush should have done on 9/12.
It is the beginnings of Armagheddon.
Have you seen the pics of the Saudi (from US) assets abandoned by KSA about a week ago in the Saudi’s failed bid to take the coast by bab al mandeb?
Impressive.
When you win you have significant control over what happens.
maybe we should surrender?
Fly a plane into something in Tehran.
I've seen skepticism expressed by war analysts that Houthis would make any kind of incursion into Saudi Arabia, even a minor one like besieging or seizing Jazan. But I'm not clear on why they think it is so unlikely given their demonstrated abilities. If the Saudi ground forces are as bad as their air performance I think they have cause for concern.
SA is, obviously, much wealthier. But the Yemeni population under Houthi control is around 22 million (roughly); even more roughly, the native Saudi population is around 21 million, with another ~14 million imported workers. I've heard the Saudis tend to inflate their population stats so I'm not even confident about those numbers. And the Houthis have a lot more combat experience, even if their videos tend to show low-brow rednecks in technicals (which probably is disingenuous of them and deflects from showing their true capabilities).
Bottom line is, if they have ways to take out lots of Abrams and Humvees and Strykers, I wouldn't bet against the Houthis in a 1:1 matchup with the Saudis.
The winning is the hard part. Every war starts with the thinking that it will be over quickly.
But what if it encourages the fifth column in Saudi Arabia to rise up against the House of Saud?
Then all bets are off.
>That would be cool. Then we can blow them up along with that black rock they worship. Like Bush should have done on 9/12.
This current effort started as the first serious response to 47 years of Iranian war on us.
If the end of it is “Islam delenda est,” the world will be so much better off that it’s worth a lot of trouble to get there.
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