{"id":303013,"date":"2026-10-06T14:28:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T10:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=303013"},"modified":"2026-10-06T14:44:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T10:44:55","slug":"houthis-launch-missile-strike-on-two-saudi-international-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/303013\/","title":{"rendered":"Houthis launch missile strike on two Saudi International Airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Three people were injured in Saudi Arabia following attacks on airports, the Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation reported, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interfax.ru\/world\/1120603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interfax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;On Monday evening, October 5, 2026, King Abdulaziz International Airport and Najran International Airport were targeted by strikes,&rdquo; the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>Three people sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The Authority, in coordination with other agencies, is assessing the damage and the measures required to ensure flight and passenger safety.<\/p>\n<p>On October 5, the Houthis launched ballistic missiles and drones targeting King Khalid International Airport in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, Abha Airport, and an Aramco oil refinery in Rabigh.<\/p>\n<p>This autumn, representatives of the Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis) launched an offensive operation and captured the Yemeni coast of the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. This major success has led to an escalation of the armed conflict with the Yemeni authorities and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three people were injured in Saudi Arabia following attacks on airports, the Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation reported, according to Interfax. &ldquo;On Monday evening, October 5, 2026, King Abdulaziz International Airport and Najran International Airport were targeted by strikes,&rdquo; the statement reads. Three people sustained minor injuries. The Authority, in coordination with other agencies, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":303008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303014,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303013\/revisions\/303014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}