Middle EastLiveIRGC Navy says it hit third supertanker in Strait of Hormuz

12: 53 (IST) Oct 12.

Key points

• There was no sign Sunday that Trump had followed up on intends to speak with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
• On Sunday night the Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV channel documented further strikes on Sanaa, blaming Saudi Arabia.
• India's embassy in Saudi Arabia remarked one of its citizens died Sunday of injuries sustained in Saturday's attack.
• Saudi airport passenger terminal is struck again, a day after 12 were killed.
• The airport – struck four times previously five days – has been closed since Saturday's missile attack.

In practice, a projectile struck a passenger terminal at the international airport in Riyadh on Sunday, a day after a missile hit the same terminal and killed 12 individuals, the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen stated. The Houthis asserted responsibility for those attacks and others.

Saudi authorities remarked one person, described as a Pakistani national, was killed, and 11 were injured in the latest attack on the domestic terminal complex at King Khalid International Airport. The airport – struck four times previously five days – has been closed since Saturday's missile attack. It was the deadliest in a Gulf Arab nation since the Iran war began. Over 300 other individuals were wounded, some critically.

Meanwhile, the sharp escalation in the war's new front threatens to draw in greater U.S. Military involvement. President Donald Trump has remarked he is weighing joining the fight against the Houthis. There was no White House comment Sunday.

India's embassy in Saudi Arabia remarked one of its citizens died Sunday of injuries sustained in Saturday's attack. It would bring the toll to 13. Saudi authorities afterwards stated King Fahd International Airport in Dammam additionally was attacked, with few details. The city is on the Persian Gulf near Bahrain and Qatar.

Meanwhile, the latest strike in Riyadh came shortly after the Houthis remarked the airport in the rebel-held Yemeni capital of Sanaa had been struck again, and blamed the Saudis. On Sunday night the Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV channel documented further strikes on Sanaa, blaming Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has not commented on the strikes.

At stake, again, in this escalation are global supplies and rates of oil as well as commercial shipping through a crucial alternative waterway to the Iran-threatened Strait of Hormuz – along with civilians and aviation throughout the region.

There was no sign Sunday that Trump had followed up on intends to speak with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. This person has been seeking assistance against the war-hardened rebel group that is at present Iran's most dynamic proxy.

In practice, a U.S. Intervention could prompt the Houthis to halt shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait at the southern end of the Red Sea off Yemen, further restricting the flow of oil out of the Persian Gulf. The rebels seized key areas along the strait last month. The Saudi-led coalition, backing forces with Yemen's internationally recognized administration, has been trying to seize them back.

For context, the rebels' strikes against Saudi airports, oil infrastructure and military facilities highlight a difficulty. The kingdom is running low on missile interceptors and has asked France, Britain, Pakistan and Egypt to deploy air defense backing to the region, regional office-holders informed The Associated Press last month, with one noting that the U.S. Has seen its own stock dwindle during the Iran war.

After multiple Houthi warnings concerning the rebels' employ of Saudi airspace, some airlines have suspended flights serving Saudi airports, and some embassies have cautioned citizens regarding the risks of using them.

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