{"id":3330,"date":"2026-10-27T09:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T04:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2026-10-27T09:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T04:03:50","slug":"saudi-led-coalition-intercepts-houthi-missiles-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3330","title":{"rendered":"Saudi-led coalition intercepts Houthi missiles, drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen \u200bsaid on Tuesday it intercepted and destroyed \u200cballistic missiles and drones launched by the Houthis towards two regions of Saudi Arabia, as the conflict between \u200bthe kingdom and the Iran-aligned group intensifies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u200bHouthis launched three ballistic missiles towards Saudi Arabia\u2019s Eastern \u2060Region, and four drones towards the country\u2019s \u200bSouthern Region, the coalition said.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Civil Defence issued early \u200bwarning alerts for a potential hostile threat in the Eastern Region and in Kharj governorate, later saying the danger \u200bhad passed in both areas.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia has \u200bintensified its strikes on the Houthis since the group captured \u200cstrategic \u2060areas along Yemen\u2019s Red Sea coast last month, advancing towards <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/why-is-bab-el-mandeb-strait-so-important-2026-09-10\/\">the Bab El Mandeb Strait<\/a>, a key global shipping route for Gulf oil producers on the \u200bother side of \u200bthe Arabian \u2060Peninsula from the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>The renewed fighting between the two \u200bsides has shattered a 2022 UN-brokered truce \u200bthat \u2060largely halted attacks between the Saudi-led coalition, which backs Yemen\u2019s internationally recognised government, and <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/why-havent-houthis-irans-allies-yemen-stepped-into-war-2026-10-04\/\">the Houthis<\/a>, who \u2060control the \u200bcapital Sanaa.<\/p>\n<p>The escalation has \u200balso opened another front in the <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/iran\/\">US-Israeli war on Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen \u200bsaid on Tuesday it intercepted and destroyed \u200cballistic missiles and drones launched by the Houthis towards two regions of Saudi Arabia, as the conflict between \u200bthe kingdom and the Iran-aligned group intensifies. The \u200bHouthis launched three ballistic missiles towards Saudi Arabia\u2019s Eastern \u2060Region, and four drones towards the country\u2019s \u200bSouthern Region, the coalition said. Saudi Civil Defence issued early \u200bwarning alerts for a potential hostile threat in the Eastern Region and in Kharj governorate, later saying the danger \u200bhad passed in both areas. Saudi Arabia&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-3330","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\/3330","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=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}