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Houthis claim drone attack on Aramco site, Saudi air base

The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted drones fired at southern Saudi Arabia but did not confirm an attack on the Aramco oil facility.
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Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed to have fired bomb-laden drones on an oil facility and an air base in southern Saudi Arabia, the latest in a series of cross-border attacks targeting the kingdom.

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea tweeted on Friday that the Iran-aligned group targeted “important and sensitive locations “ at the King Khalid Air Base in the southwestern Saudi city of Khamis Mushait, as well as an oil site owned by Saudi Aramco in the Red Sea city of Jizan. 

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