Houthis vow more attacks on Saudi airports, oil facilities after claiming they targeted Aramco

Yemen’s Houthi rebels said on Wednesday they had targeted facilities belonging to Saudi Aramco, after Saudi officials reported a strike on a building in an area in Riyadh housing the energy giant’s operations centre. Powerful explosions meanwhile rattled the Saudi capital, as the coalition fighting the Houthis said it had intercepted a missile fired by the group towards Riyadh. Saudi Arabia, the world’s top crude oil exporter, has in recent days come under sustained attack in a dramatic escalation in the war with the Houthis. It has hit back with strikes against the group’s stronghold in the…