Saudi Arabia issued emergency alerts after Houthi missile attacks on Jazan and Yanbu, disrupting Red Sea shipping and adding fresh volatility to global energy markets as tankers divert and crude prices climb.

LONDON: Four Saudi crude tankers were forced to turn back on Tuesday after Yemen’s Houthi militia warned that any vessel calling at Saudi ports could be targeted “in any location…

The strikes on the vessels in the Red Sea from the Iran-backed terrorist group threaten to deepen the Iran war throughout the Middle East.

Saudi strikes Houthi sites in Yemen as conflict flares