A wave of Houthi missile strikes hit Saudi Arabia’s King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh this week, killing Saudi citizens and forcing airlines to cancel flights into the kingdom’s capital.

Saudi Arabia’s cabinet said the Houthi group would “bear the consequences” for attacks on airports, the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, and vital economic sites. The cabinet linked the warning to the kingdom’s security and to freedom of navigation in the Red Sea. Saudi officials have faced a grim week. Reuters reported people killed and dozens wounded after strikes on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and on facilities at Abha airport in the southwest. The warning signals a tougher stance.

Yemen’s Houthi group publicly warned airlines, workers, and travelers to avoid Saudi airports and airspace, saying they are “a theatre of operations,” while exempting the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. The message followed a burst of claimed attacks using ballistic and cruise missiles and drones. The stated carve-out for Mecca and Medina shows intent to spare specific religious sites, but it still labels civilian aviation targets across the country as fair game, raising grave safety and legal concerns.

By Jason Ditz, antiwar.com

Anticipating another round of war with Hezbollah despite the fact that the current Israeli invasion of Lebanon hasn’t even ended, Defense Minister Israel Katz laid out a litany of threats against Lebanon that would happen if Hezbollah “joins Iran” in any attack on Israel.

Dave de Camp, antiwar.com

The Israeli military has now killed more than 1,500 Palestinians in Gaza since signing a so-called ceasefire deal just over one year ago in October 2025, according to numbers from Gaza’s Health Ministry, as it has continued constant violations of the agreement.

Posted by Tyler Durden, Authored by Alastair Crooke

The Iranian parliament speaker invoked the Iran-Iraq War, which lasted eight years, suggesting Tehran is preparing for the possibility of a prolonged conflict with the US

By Dave De Camp, antiwar.com

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf said in a televised speech on Wednesday that the US must be “punished” in order for it to accept Iran’s demands to end the war.

Wednesday has witnessed another Houthi ballistic missile attack targeting Saudi Arabia's capital. The kingdom's civil defense spokesman has confirmed bystanders were injured when missile debris from an inbound rocket fell after it was intercepted over Riyadh.

"The incident resulted in injury to an Arab resident and limited material damage to a residential building and a vehicle," stated the spokesman, as quoted by state SPA news agency.

Update(1629ET): Saudi Aramco facilities are once again under Houthi attack, with reports saying the kingdom is busy trying to intercept inbound ballistic missiles. Tuesday night saw several eyewitnesses report loud booms near the headquarters of Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company in Dhahran. However, Aramco has not immediately given confirmation of impact or that its sites are being targeted.

When the Strait of Hormuz closed at the end of February, Saudi Arabia had what almost no other Gulf producer had: a way out at scale. The East-West pipeline, known in the industry as Petroline, carries crude 1,200 kilometers across the desert from the oil fields of the Eastern Province to Yanbu on the Red Sea. Its maximum capacity is about 7 million barrels a day. For seven months it has been the reason the world could still count on Saudi oil. That lifeline is now failing.