Fire and a huge column of smoke erupted at Saudi Arabia’s King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Saturday, causing flight delays, when a fuel storage tank was hit by the Houthis of Yemen, who also struck the Aramco terminal at the Saudi Red Sea port of Yanbu. The Yemeni Armed Forces, in a statement published by Saba News, said the strikes had been made in retaliation for the Saudi accusation that the Houthis had targeted the Mecca holy sites and for 752 Saudi air strikes against targets in Yemen.

“In response to the Saudi enemy’s criminal attempts to target the capital, Sana’a, using ISIS-style tactics, including indiscriminate bombings targeting civilians, the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out two successful military operations using a large number of ballistic and cruise missiles and drones,” the statement said. “The first targeted sensitive sites in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, and the second targeted Aramco facilities in Yanbu. Both operations were successful, by the grace of Allah, and resulted in massive fires at the targeted locations.”