{"id":4236,"date":"2026-11-11T21:03:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T16:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4236"},"modified":"2026-11-11T21:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T16:03:49","slug":"saudi-coalition-says-intercepted-3-houthi-missiles-fired-at-riyadh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4236","title":{"rendered":"Saudi coalition says intercepted 3 Houthi missiles fired at Riyadh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen\u2019s Houthis said on Wednesday that it shot down three cruise missiles fired at Riyadh, which has been targeted for weeks by the Iran-backed group.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAir defenses intercepted and destroyed 3 cruise missiles launched by the Houthi terrorist militia toward the Riyadh area,\u201d coalition spokesperson Turki al-Malki posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>The latest incident comes after the Houthis damaged a skyscraper belonging to oil giant Saudi Aramco in the capital\u2019s gleaming financial district on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Riyadh\u2019s international airport has also been targeted repeatedly, with deadly attacks forcing it to close for two weeks last month.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia formed an international coalition to fight the Houthis in 2015, after the group\u2019s takeover of Yemen\u2019s capital Sanaa.<\/p>\n<p>After years of an uneasy truce, the conflict reignited in July.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen\u2019s Houthis said on Wednesday that it shot down three cruise missiles fired at Riyadh, which has been targeted for weeks by the Iran-backed group. \u201cAir defenses intercepted and destroyed 3 cruise missiles launched by the Houthi terrorist militia toward the Riyadh area,\u201d coalition spokesperson Turki al-Malki posted on X. The latest incident comes after the Houthis damaged a skyscraper belonging to oil giant Saudi Aramco in the capital\u2019s gleaming financial district on Sunday. Riyadh\u2019s international airport has also been targeted repeatedly, with deadly attacks forcing&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-4236","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\/4236","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=4236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}