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09/08/2026 - 11:28 GMT+2

Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels said on Sunday they had struck an oil facility on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast after the Gulf kingdom said it had extinguished a fire at the site.

The group's military spokesman Yahya Saree said the Houthis had "succeeded in targeting the Aramco refinery in Jizan with a drone, and the strike was precise", adding the attack had been launched in response to Saudi drone incursions into northwest Yemen.

Aramco is Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company, the