{"id":3386,"date":"2026-10-27T19:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3386"},"modified":"2026-10-27T19:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:03:44","slug":"yemens-houthis-say-they-hit-saudi-ras-tanura-oil-refinery-with-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3386","title":{"rendered":"Yemen&#8217;s Houthis say they hit Saudi Ras Tanura oil refinery with missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Yemen\u2019s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Tuesday they had hit Saudi Arabia\u2019s Ras Tanura oil refinery, the biggest in the kingdom, with \u200ba ballistic missile.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the strike \u200chad caused a fire at the complex, which also includes a shipping terminal, located on the Gulf, west of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi authorities did not immediately confirm the \u200bstrike.<\/p>\n<p>Ras Tanura, which has a capacity of 550,000 barrels per day, \u200bwas shut for a period in the early months of the \u2060Iran war as a precautionary measure.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthi militia have escalated their attacks \u200bon Saudi Arabia since September, opening another front in the wider US-Israeli war on \u200bIran.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all of Saudi Arabia\u2019s oil exports flow through two main ports: Ras Tanura in the Gulf and Yanbu on the Red Sea, both of which the Houthis have attacked \u200bin the past.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bloomberg News<\/em> cited a person familiar with the matter as \u200bsaying Saudi Arabia had contained a fire near Ras Tanura\u2019s terminal in the early hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u200cThe \u2060Houthis have been regularly firing ballistic missiles and drones at Saudi airports, ports and oil installations in recent weeks. On Tuesday afternoon, civil defence authorities briefly issued an air raid alert in the Saudi capital Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi-led coalition fighting \u200bagainst the Houthis in \u200bsupport of Yemen\u2019s \u2060internationally recognised government said it had intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles launched by the Houthis towards Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>The fighting \u200bhas shattered a 2022 UN-brokered truce between the coalition and \u200bthe \u2060Houthis, who control the Yemeni capital Sanaa.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Makkah defence pact countries Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan met Iranian officials in Tehran to try to de-escalate the overall \u2060Middle East \u200bconflict.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament in Egypt, which has said it \u200bis considering joining the Mecca pact, on Monday authorised the Egyptian military to help defend Saudi Arabia \u200bif asked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen\u2019s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Tuesday they had hit Saudi Arabia\u2019s Ras Tanura oil refinery, the biggest in the kingdom, with \u200ba ballistic missile. The group\u2019s military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the strike \u200chad caused a fire at the complex, which also includes a shipping terminal, located on the Gulf, west of the Strait of Hormuz. Saudi authorities did not immediately confirm the \u200bstrike. Ras Tanura, which has a capacity of 550,000 barrels per day, \u200bwas shut for a period in the early months of the \u2060Iran war as a&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-3386","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\/3386","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=3386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}