BRIEF RESPITE?
US President Donald Trump has so far held off on launching major strikes on Iran, saying talks were getting ‘more and more serious as the days go by’
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed a missile attack on Saudi Arabia yesterday as US President Donald Trump mulled fresh strikes on the Islamic republic in the deepening Middle East war. The rebels targeted the Saudi City of Jizan on the Red Sea and Saudi’s civil defense issued warnings in the area on the kingdom’s southwest coast as well as in Yanbu to the north, Houthi media said.The strike had sparked fires and a video circulating on social media showed dark clouds rising above a refinery belonging to Saudi oil giant Saudi Aramco in Jizan.
A Houthi follower on March 26, 2016, raises a weapon at a rally in Sana’a marking one year of Saudi-led airstrikes.
Earlier, the group accused US ally Saudi Arabia of a “dangerous escalation” after Riyadh struck Houthi targets on Friday.A Yemeni security source said a naval base in the port city of Hodeida and a military camp on Kamaran Island were among the Saudi targets.
