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Yemen’s Houthis have renewed their warning to airlines, airport staff and passengers not to use Saudi airports. They said the call should be taken seriously and held the kingdom responsible for failed interceptions.
The warning came a day after an attack on Riyadh’s international airport. Twelve people were killed and flights were temporarily suspended.
According to Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Energy, the 25th World Petroleum Congress opened in Riyadh on Sunday.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio strongly condemned the latest attacks on Saudi Arabia. He said a US citizen was also killed in the strikes and wrote on the social media platform X that the attacks showed blatant disregard for civilian lives.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) said it had disabled the Panama-flagged commercial vessel “Ocean Molica” in the Gulf of Oman. According to the command, the ship’s crew ignored warnings and attempted to breach the naval blockade imposed on Iran.
According to a post on CENTCOM’s X account, a US military aircraft made a precision strike on the vessel’s stern, disabling its propulsion system. The crew members were not injured, and the ship had previously departed an Iranian port, the post said.
The command said that since July 14, four commercial vessels had been disabled and 135 ships had been turned back under the blockade targeting vessels entering or leaving Iranian ports. During the same period, 10 tankers linked to a network associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had been destroyed.
