Saudi Jets Hit Sanaa Oil Building After Houthi Missiles Fly at Riyadh

Saudi Arabian fighter jets hit an oil company building in the al-Wahdah district of southern Sanaa, Iran's semi-official Tasnim News reported. The strike set off fires involving gas tankers at a fuel station next door, drawing civil defense teams in to smother the flames and lock down the area. Residential homes and commercial shops nearby took what Tasnim described as extensive damage, and multiple civilians were injured.

Hours earlier, coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Maliki said Saudi air defenses took out two Houthi missiles in one go — a ballistic missile and a cruise missile. "Air defenses intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the Houthi terrorist militia toward Riyadh," al-Maliki wrote on X. The coalition had already reported intercepting earlier threats aimed at southern Saudi regions.

Riyadh residents got a scare of their own. The National Early Warning Platform fired off a brief alert about a potential danger, then quickly followed with an all-clear: "The danger has passed in Riyadh. For your safety, continue following Civil Defense instructions and avoid gatherings and taking photos." In the country's south, Civil Defense lifted danger alerts in Abha and the governorate of Khamis Mushait minutes after raising them, urging residents to keep following official guidance.

The standoff is spilling beyond Yemen's borders. The U.S. military moved refueling tankers and aircraft out of Royal Air Force Mildenhall in the United Kingdom to Germany on Monday after security threats tied to Iran, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton and other intelligence leaders briefed Congress's "Gang of Eight" on the risks to American personnel and the homeland, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio said officials handled the danger by "moving people away from the threat."