The Saudi-led coalition said a projectile struck a terminal at Riyadh’s airport Sunday, a day after a missile attack killed 13 people and injured 309.

The Saudi-led coalition said a projectile struck a terminal at Riyadh’s airport Sunday, a day after a missile attack killed 13 people and injured 309.

An unidentified projectile struck Saudi Arabia’s main international airport Sunday, injuring people a day after a deadly missile attack at the same site raised questions about whether the United States would join another conflict in the region.

Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation confirmed the death of a Pakistani resident and injuries to 11 others in the new attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. It said authorities were assessing damage and checking the safety of airport facilities.

The Saudi-led coalition said the projectile struck Terminal 4, causing a fire that authorities were working to control. It also reported intercepting and destroying a cruise missile near the airport.

  • givesomefucksEnglish
    42·
    8 hours ago

    President Donald Trump said afterward that the U.S. was considering joining Saudi military operations against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

    “Considering joining”?! Houthis (and many others) are bankrolled by Iran, they got the greenlight because trump started a war on Iran, and SA is a target because they helped trump…

    “We may. We’re gonna look at it,” Trump told reporters. “We just found out about the recent attack. So we’ll make a decision. We move very quickly.”

    Moving quickly is why everything keeps spiraling out of control…

    Saturday’s strike drew widespread condemnation and intensified pressure on the kingdom and its allies to respond to the Houthi rebels. The attack was the deadliest to hit the kingdom in a decade and marked a sharp escalation in the Yemen-based Houthis’ campaign against the leading oil exporter, which has already rattled the global economy.

    People don’t fucking understand the Houthis…

    They live and operate in massive tunnels wide enough for two lane roads for giant trucks. They just live in there like mole people assembling drones nonstop out of raw materials. They’ve been building Yemen for a decade, and even if/when you find them, they’re deep enough it takes state of the art “but ker busters” to even reach them.

    And trump gave all of ours away for Israel to commit a genocide with…

    The Houthis are going to keep blowing shit up till Iran tells them to stop. And Iran isn’t going to tell them to stop till trump fucks off.

    Nothing else will solve this, even if we nuke Iran or invade and overthrow them.

    If Iran is gone the Houthis will get even more extreme, because as crazy as Iran is, they’re still holding the Houthis back.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
      2·
      5 hours ago

      and SA is a target because they helped trump…

      Hell no? There’s a reason the Houthis are only attacking Saudi Arabia, and it’s the Yemeni Civil War. Iran helps the Houthis because they have a common enemy in Saudi Arabia, which may have something to do with Saudi Arabia having starved almost a hundred thousand Yemeni children to death. The Houthis justify their airport strikes in particular as retaliation for a (claimed, I can’t find reporting on it) Saudi strike on Sanaa International Airport, which wouldn’t be the first time. The beef between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis is real, bloody and far more than just an extension of America’s beef with Iran. The only thing that would stop the Houthis from blowing is things in Saudi Arabia is for the Saudis to stop blowing up things in Houthi-held Yemen.