On January 5, Saudi Air Defense intercepted a Qaher-M2 short-range ballistic missile targeting the country’s southwestern city of Najran. According to the official spokesperson of the Arab Coalition, Colonel Turki al-Maliki, the Houthi missile was intercepted by the Patriot defense system north of Najran, resulting in minor damage to private property due to the shrapnel, but...
The Saudi-led coalition announced Tuesday that it intercepted a ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s rebel Houthi group. Houthi sources reported firing a missile towards Riyadh, targeting a meeting of the Saudi leadership in al-Yamama Palace. Saudi media claims that the missile was headed towards a residential area of Riyadh and no casualties or damages have...
On Sunday, Yemen’s Houthi rebel group claimed to launch “a winged cruise missile…towards al-Barakah nuclear reactor in Abu Dhabi.” The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has denied these reports, and claims that no missiles entered UAE airspace. This is the second time this year that the Iran-aligned Houthis have claimed to fire a long-range cruise missile...
Fragments from four ballistic missiles fired into Saudi Arabia this year by Yemen’s Houthi rebels appear to be Iranian in origin, according to a confidential UN report drafted by sanctions monitors obtained by Reuters. “Design characteristics and dimensions of the components inspected by the panel are consistent with those reported for the Iranian designed and...
On November 10, a senior U.S. Air Force official in the Middle East told reporters that Iran manufactured the ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi-Saleh forces toward the Saudi capital and remnants of it bore Iranian markings. “What we have seen, clearly from the results of the ballistic missile attacks, that there have been Iranian...
On November 4, Houthi-Saleh forces launched a Scud-derived Burkan-2H ballistic missile toward Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Saudi air defenses employed at least four Patriot interceptors, which the Saudi Ministry of Defense said successfully destroyed the incoming missile. According to Yemen’s Houthi-controlled Defense Ministry, the Burkan-2H was aimed at the King Khalid International Airport....
On July 27, Saudi Arabia intercepted a ballistic missile close to Mecca, according to the Arab military coalition. Houthi-Saleh forces launched the 800 km Borkan-1 from northern Yemen. The missile was intercepted 69 km south of the city. Houthi-Saleh news sources state that the Burkan-1 missile was aimed toward King Fahd Air Base, located approximately...
On July 23, Yemen’s Houthi armed group reportedly targeted a Saudi Aramco oil refinery with a Burkan-2 ballistic missile. According to reports, the missile traveled 1,100 km to hit the Yanbu city refinery, located along the Red Sea coast. Abdulrahman Al-Abdulqader, the spokesman for the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, said the Yanbu refinery...
On June 15, Houthi militants fired a cruise missile against a UAE ship off the coast of Yemen, near the Bab al-Mandab Strait. Coalition forces have not named the ship, and it remains unclear whether it was military or civilian. According to Saudi state news agency SPA, the ship was reportedly undamaged, but one crew...
On March 28, the Saudi Royal Air Defense Force reported that it successfully intercepted four ballistic missiles fired by Houthi forces in Yemen. The missiles, intercepted by Saudi Arabia’s PAC-3 interceptors, were targeting the Saudi cities of Khamis Mushayt, which contains the King Khalid Air Base, and Abha. In a statement by the Saudi Press...
