{"id":3133,"date":"2026-10-22T19:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3133"},"modified":"2026-10-22T19:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:04:11","slug":"saudi-aramco-tells-staff-to-evacuate-dhahran-as-clashes-with-houthis-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3133","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Aramco tells staff to evacuate Dhahran as clashes with Houthis continue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Saudi state oil company Aramco has told staff to evacuate its headquarters in Dhahran on the Gulf, six \u200cpeople with knowledge of the matter told Reuters<\/em> on Thursday, as fighting between the world\u2019s largest crude exporter and Yemen\u2019s Iran-aligned Houthis intensifies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clashes between the Houthis and a Saudi-led coalition that backs Yemen\u2019s internationally recognised government have raged since the group pushed towards Bab el-Mandeb, a shipping chokepoint at the Red Sea\u2019s mouth.<\/p>\n

The instruction to staff to evacuate the building and work remotely follows a wave of Houthi attacks on the kingdom, targeting the company and Saudi airports. The company did not immediately respond \u200bto a request for comment on what would be the first evacuation since the start of the Iran war.<\/p>\n

It was \u2060unclear what the reason for the evacuation was.<\/p>\n

The kingdom\u2019s benchmark index. TASI dropped 2.5% on Thursday following the Aramco news, according to LSEG data. Oil prices rose \u200bto their highest since May on Thursday on concern over an escalation of the Middle East conflict and its impact on crude oil supplies from the \u200bworld\u2019s key exporting region.<\/p>\n

<\/a>HOUTHIS SAY THEY TARGETED ARAMCO IN YANBU<\/h3>\n

Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree said in a televised speech that the group had launched attacks on Aramco facilities in the Red Sea city of Yanbu and the Saudi defence ministry in the capital Riyadh. Saudi authorities did not confirm the attack.<\/p>\n

The Saudi-led coalition said on Thursday it had \u200bintercepted drones over Riyadh and Islam\u2019s holy city of Madinah, which is near Yanbu.<\/p>\n

The renewed fighting between Saudi Arabia and Houthi militias in recent weeks \u200bended a 2022 UN-brokered truce, which had largely halted cross-border attacks, and opened another front in the US-Israeli war on Iran.<\/p>\n

The Houthis caused extensive damage to Aramco\u2019s headquarters earlier \u200cthis month \u2060when they struck the building, with fire spreading across several floors.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia has responded to Houthi attacks with a wave of strikes on missile launcher sites, vowing to protect the kingdom, and says it has intercepted many ballistic missiles fired by the group.<\/p>\n

Saree said that Saudi attacks on Yemen have killed and wounded 562 people since mid July, when the Houthis imposed a naval blockade on the kingdom, which then drew a warning from the Saudi-led coalition that \u200bit would respond \u201cfirmly\u201d.<\/p>\n

Separately, he said earlier on \u200bThursday that the group is \u2060rescuing a boat carrying 14 Indians that was attacked off Jabal Zuqar island near the strait, one of the territories the group seized in an advance in September.<\/p>\n

Saree blamed the attack on Saudi Arabia. Saudi authorities did not respond \u200bto a Reuters request for comment.<\/p>\n

<\/a>HOUTHI AIRPORT ATTACKS<\/h3>\n

A Houthi attack on King Fahd International Airport in Saudi Arabia\u2019s \u200beastern oil hub of \u2060Dammam near Dhahran on Wednesday evening killed two people, a Saudi citizen and an Indian national, and wounded eight others.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia\u2019s General Authority of Civil Aviation said on Thursday that operations at the airport had resumed and air traffic had returned to normal.<\/p>\n

The Houthis had warned airlines this month against using Saudi airspace as they \u2060have repeatedly \u200btargeted Saudi airports, including Riyadh\u2019s international airport and the southern airport of Abha.<\/p>\n

Brent crude futures \u200bLCOc1 climbed $3.06, or 2.81%, to $111.88 a barrel by 1104 GMT on Thursday. They hit $112.55 a barrel earlier in the session, the highest since May 18.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saudi state oil company Aramco has told staff to evacuate its headquarters in Dhahran on the Gulf, six \u200cpeople with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Thursday, as fighting between the world\u2019s largest crude exporter and Yemen\u2019s Iran-aligned Houthis intensifies. Clashes between the Houthis and a Saudi-led coalition that backs Yemen\u2019s internationally recognised government have raged since the group pushed towards Bab el-Mandeb, a shipping chokepoint at the Red Sea\u2019s mouth. The instruction to staff to evacuate the building and work remotely follows a wave of Houthi attacks on…<\/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-3133","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\/3133","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=3133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}