{"id":2111,"date":"2026-10-03T18:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T13:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2026-10-03T18:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T13:03:43","slug":"fire-smoke-seen-near-aramco-facility-in-riyadh-witness-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2111","title":{"rendered":"Fire, smoke seen near Aramco facility in Riyadh, witness says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A large plume of smoke \u200band fire was seen rising \u200cin the vicinity of an Aramco facility in Riyadh on Saturday, a \u200bwitness told <em>Reuters<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There was no \u200bimmediate confirmation from Saudi authorities \u2060about the fire. Aramco did \u200bnot immediately respond to a request \u200bfor comment.<\/p>\n<p>The fire comes amid escalating hostilities between Saudi Arabia and Yemen\u2019s Iran-aligned \u200bHouthis, who have stepped up \u200battacks on Saudi cities and energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>There \u200cwas \u2060no immediate claim of responsibility for Saturday\u2019s fire.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthis said last week they had attacked Saudi \u200bAramco facilities \u200bin \u2060Yanbu with missiles and drones. Saudi Arabia said \u200bat the time that it \u200bhad \u2060intercepted six ballistic missiles fired by the Houthis towards Taif \u2060and \u200bthe Yanbu area, but \u200bdid not report damage to Aramco facilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a developing story\u2026 More to follow\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large plume of smoke \u200band fire was seen rising \u200cin the vicinity of an Aramco facility in Riyadh on Saturday, a \u200bwitness told Reuters. There was no \u200bimmediate confirmation from Saudi authorities \u2060about the fire. Aramco did \u200bnot immediately respond to a request \u200bfor comment. The fire comes amid escalating hostilities between Saudi Arabia and Yemen\u2019s Iran-aligned \u200bHouthis, who have stepped up \u200battacks on Saudi cities and energy infrastructure. There \u200cwas \u2060no immediate claim of responsibility for Saturday\u2019s fire. The Houthis said last week they had attacked Saudi \u200bAramco&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}