Three Saudi nationals killed in Houthi attacks on Riyadh airport

What the report says

Three Saudi nationals were killed in attacks on Riyadh’s international airport, Saudi civil aviation authorities said, after Yemen’s Houthi movement said it had struck the facility with missiles. According to the BBC report, the strikes also injured several Saudi citizens and residents of other nationalities. One of the dead was a pilot for the state airline Saudia, which said one of its aircraft was hit.

The civil aviation authority said airport operations later returned to normal. The Houthi group said it had also targeted airports in Najran and a military air base further north, though Saudi Arabia has not confirmed those claims. The BBC reported that the incident followed earlier Houthi attacks on Saudi airports on October 6 and 7, which killed three people and wounded dozens in separate strikes.

The latest violence comes amid a renewed escalation in the Yemen conflict, where the Houthis control much of the northwest and are fighting Saudi-backed government forces. The BBC noted that the Houthi leadership says it is responding to Saudi military action and that the broader war, which began in 2015, has already caused a severe humanitarian crisis. More broadly, the attacks underline how the conflict continues to spill across borders and threaten civilian transport and regional security.