The Saudi Ministry of Energy has said this Sunday that a projectile hit a property belonging to the state oil company Aramco located in the capital, Riyadh, as part of a new attack attributed to Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
"An administrative building in Riyadh belonging to Saudí Aramco has been the target of an attempted attack this Sunday, November 8, 2026. The incident has caused the fall of debris that has caused minor damage to the building without any injuries or victims, fortunately," the Ministry explained.
Before this announcement, the international military coalition led by Saudi Arabia had indicated that its defensive systems managed to intercept and destroy two cruise missiles and three ballistic missiles launched in the last hours against the capital, Riyadh, and against several areas in the south of the country by the Houthi militia.
"Interception and destruction of two cruise missiles in the Riyadh and the South regions," the coalition spokesperson, Turki al Maliki, reported in a post on his social media networks.
According to the authorities, the anti-aircraft batteries responded immediately to halt the incursion into Saudi airspace and, for now, no victims, injuries, or significant material damage have been recorded in the affected areas.
The Saudi Civil Defense also issued a preventive alert for five regions of the country, including the city of Dammam, the areas of Al Ahsa and Buqaiq, in the east, as well as Riyadh and Najran, in the south. Subsequently, the agency reported that the situation had returned to normal and that the immediate risk had eased.
At the same time, the Houthis have denounced the carrying out of 105 aerial bombardments in the last 24 hours, concentrated above all in Bani Hashish, east of Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, and that would have reached up to eight different regions.
These episodes occur in a context of intensifying cross-border attacks by the Houthi insurgency against key infrastructure and urban areas in Saudi territory, as part of the prolonged war in Yemen.
The Houthis, who on September 3 of last year launched a large-scale offensive in western Yemen, have carried out multiple attacks with missiles and drones against targets in Saudi Arabia, including several airports, in retaliation for the support of the international coalition led by Riyadh for the forces of the Yemen Government recognized by the international community.
For their part, forces loyal to Yemen’s authorities announced on October 4 the start of a large-scale offensive with the objective of retaking the areas recently seized by the Houthis and advancing toward the capital, Sana’a, controlled by the rebels since 2014, an operation that has the support of the international coalition led by Saudi Arabia.