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The Cradle
NOV 8, 2026
The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) announced a series of missile and drone strikes on Riyadh’s financial district on 8 November, as well as several other military operations targeting Saudi Arabia and its allies inside Yemen.
Saudi Arabia’s Energy Ministry confirmed an “attempted” attack on an Aramco building in Riyadh, saying it was damaged by “falling shrapnel.”
“The first operation targeted King Khalid International Airport, Aramco storage tanks, and the Financial District in the capital of the Saudi enemy, Riyadh. The strikes scored direct and precise hits … causing extensive damage to the targeted sites,” the YAF statement says.
Sanaa also announced strikes on Aramco in Abqaiq, in eastern Saudi Arabia.
Other operations targeted Saudi troop concentrations near Yemen’s Al-Jawf, Marib, and Lahj provinces – resulting in “a large number of dead and wounded.”
The YAF vowed to continue operations and said its forces “will inflict severe pain” on Saudi Arabia.
Sanaa said the attacks are a response to Saudi massacres in the Souq al-Hadara market in Al-Waziiyah and in residential buildings in Bani Hushaysh, which left more than 120 people killed and wounded, most of them women and children.
“Saudi warplanes carried out 105 airstrikes and missile attacks over the past 24 hours, targeting civilian sites in the capital, Sanaa, and the governorates of Al-Jawf, Taiz, Amran, Hajjah, Saada, Marib and Lahj,” the YAF said on Saturday night.
In July, Saudi Arabia escalated its decade-long war on Yemen, triggering a major retaliatory campaign by the Ansarallah-led YAF.
Oil refineries, energy storage sites, military bases, and airports across the kingdom have been targeted.
In September, Sanaa’s forces seized the Bab al-Mandab Strait, much of the western Yemeni coast, and several Red Sea islands.
Yemeni operations have significantly impacted Saudi Arabia’s economy.
The kingdom’s General Authority for Statistics announced on 1 November that the Saudi economy has shrunk by 3.8 percent due to the wars on Iran and Yemen and their impact on energy output.
