Yemen's Houthis renewed warning to airlines, airport workers, and travellers against using Saudi airports, saying the warning should be taken seriously and that the kingdom “bore responsibility for failed interceptions”, a day after an attack on Riyadh's international airport that killed 12 people.
Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation authority said Dammam airport in the kingdom’s Eastern Province was attacked on Sunday.
The statement came shortly after Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement said it had targeted the airport.
The Indian embassy in Saudi Arabia said on Sunday that an Indian national injured in the attack at Riyadh's international airport had died.
“We are in touch with the family and will provide all support for ensuring the early repatriation of mortal remains,” the embassy said in a post on X.
The Indian national's death adds to the death toll from the attack at Riyadh's international airport on Saturday, which killed 12 people according to initial reports and wounded more than 300 others, the deadliest such strike on Saudi Arabia in over a decade.
Iran has described the U.S. response to its seven conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz as “insufficient”, state media quoted security official Mohsen Rezaei as saying on Sunday.
Tehran presented a proposal during the UN General Assembly under which normal maritime passage through the strategic waterway could resume within seven days if its conditions were met. The United States responded through Qatari intermediaries, Rezaei said.
He said Washington had accepted some of Iran’s conditions, but others remained unclear, and called on the U.S. to clarify its position. Rezaei added that Iran would not reopen the strait to the United States or enter negotiations until its conditions were met.
The White House did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Qatar and other mediators have been relaying messages between Washington and Tehran in efforts to end the conflict and restore shipping through the strait, a key route for global oil and liquefied natural gas supplies.
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attack on Riyadh’s international airport in a televised speech.
The attack killed 12 people and wounded more than 300 others.
Pakistan is in contact with Saudi authorities following an attack on Riyadh’s international airport that reportedly killed 12 people and injured more than 300 others, Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar said on Sunday.
Dar condemned the attack, saying that “attacks targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure are totally unacceptable”.
He added that he had directed Pakistan’s embassy in Riyadh to coordinate with Saudi authorities to provide assistance to injured Pakistani nationals.
Yemen's Houthi-run Al Masirah TV reported on Sunday a strike it said was carried out by Saudi Arabia on Yemen's Sanaa International Airport.
There was no immediate Saudi comment.
A tanker heading outbound through the Strait of Hormuz was struck on its port side by an unidentified projectile, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency said on Sunday.
It said the strike damaged the vessel but left all crew safe and caused no reported environmental impact.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that it condemned the attack on Riyadh airport, Russian news agency Interfax reported.
The situation in the Middle East can only be resolved through diplomatic means, while taking into account the interests of all countries in the region, the ministry said.
Kuwait Airways has cancelled two flights scheduled to and from Riyadh on Sunday following the temporary suspension of operations at King Khalid International Airport by Saudi authorities.
Earlier, Jazeera Airways reported disruptions to its Riyadh services, while India’s Akasa Air extended the suspension of all flights to Saudi Arabia until Tuesday.
Ukraine has strongly condemned Saturday’s missile attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, which killed 12 people and injured 309.
Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha described attacks on civilian infrastructure as a “flagrant violation” of international law, extending condolences to the victims’ families and reaffirming Ukraine’s solidarity with Saudi Arabia.
The Yemeni army launched airstrikes on Houthi positions in the southwestern province of Taiz amid military escalation across the country.
In a statement, the army’s Taiz Military Axis said airstrikes targeted Houthi positions, gatherings and vehicles at al-Maqrami, al-Jaasha and al-Sallal hills east of Taiz city, as well as Hisn al-Mukhaf and the Bala’an area on the Aqrouz front in the south of the province.
It did not provide any details about possible casualties or damage.
Pakistan denounced the Yemeni Houthi group's attack on the main airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
“Attacks targeting civilians and critical infrastructure are completely unacceptable and constitute a serious threat to regional peace and stability,” Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Sunday.
Sharif said that “such acts of violence, which are a flagrant violation of international law, must cease immediately.”
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned that the latest Houthi attack on Riyadh's airport marked a “dangerous escalation,” describing it as the deadliest such attack on the facility so far.
“The deadliest Houthi attack so far on Riyadh's airport marks a dangerous escalation,” von der Leyen said on X.
“Our thoughts are with the victims and their families,” she said, expressing solidarity with Saudi Arabia and its people.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres “strongly” condemned a Houthi attack targeting the main airport in Riyadh, which claimed at least 12 lives and injured hundreds of civilians.
Syria condemned “in the strongest terms” Saturday’s deadly Houthi attack on King Khalid International Airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh, stressing that the security of Saudi Arabia is an “integral part of the security of Syria and the entire region.”
In a statement released on X, the Syrian Foreign Ministry described the attack as “a violation of the Kingdom’s sovereignty and a direct threat to its security and stability, as well as to the safety of civilians, civilian facilities, and air navigation.”
Saudi Arabia's energy ministry said the 25th World Petroleum Council (WPC) Energy Congress began in Riyadh on Sunday, a day after a deadly attack on the capital's international airport prompted a temporary suspension of flight operations.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the United States strongly condemns recent attacks on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
He said an American citizen was killed in the strikes.
“These reprehensible attacks demonstrate a blatant disregard for innocent civilian life. They must stop now,” Rubio wrote on X.
The U.S. military said it had disabled a commercial cargo vessel in the Gulf of Oman after the ship's crew ignored warnings and attempted to run an ongoing naval blockade against Iran.
“A U.S. military fighter jet struck the stern of Panama-flagged M/V Ocean Molica (also known as the “Arika Sun”) with a precision munition, fully disabling the ship’s propulsion without harming the crew,” the U.S. Central Command posted on X.
CENTCOM said the cargo vessel had attempted to transit regional waters after leaving an Iranian port.
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