Operations were suspended on Tuesday at an airport in Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start..., a regional source with knowledge of the matter said, after Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
’s Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the
Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s announced they had attacked the site.
Last month, the Houthis declared a maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest exporter of crude, and has since claimed several attacks on oil tankers and infrastructure.
Saudi Arabia has retaliated with strikes targeting Houthi positions.
Houthi military front man Yahya Saree on Tuesday said the rebels "successfully targeted a sensitive target belonging to the Saudi enemy at Najran
a city in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen. It is the capital of the province of the same name, a favored target of Houthi rocket forces because they can see it, so there's no math involved....
Airport using a drone."
He added that the strike on the southern airport was "in response to the Saudi enemy’s violation of airspace over the Saada and Hajjah governorates using drones."
The source told AFP that the airport’s main radar was hit, affecting operations.
The airport website listed as "unknown" the status of flights scheduled for the next few days.
Saudi Arabia has not, so far, issued any comment on the claimed attack.
The small airport is located near the Yemeni border and has a single terminal handling a few flights per day.
Fighting erupted last month, marking the first time that Saudi Arabia and the Houthis have traded heavy fire since a 2022 truce.
A Saudi-led military coalition had been at war with the Houthis since 2015, after the rebels seized the capital Sanaa and forced out the internationally recognized government.
The renewed hostilities between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis are an example of how the war between the US and Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
has spread.
Saudi Arabia was reportedly gearing up for a major offensive against the Houthis, The Guardian reported on Thursday, as Saudi forces were reportedly seen withdrawing from eastern Yemen in what may signal preparations for a ground attack.
The report came just two days after Rooters reported, citing regional sources familiar with the matter, that the Houthis were considering imposing fees on fat merchantmen sailing through the southern Red Sea amid the group’s ongoing maritime blockade.