Iran's Other Front: Houthi Missile Debris Hits Riyadh's Financial District as Yemen's War Reignites

A Saudi Aramco building in Riyadh was damaged by falling shrapnel Sunday after the Saudi-led coalition said it shot down Houthi ballistic missiles. The fight in Yemen now threatens the Red Sea route Saudi Arabia uses to get oil around Hormuz.

By Clara Hughes

The Strait of Hormuz gets the headlines. Yemen is where Iran’s war is quietly spreading. A Saudi Aramco administrative building in Riyadh was damaged by “falling shrapnel” following an “attempted” attack, Saudi Arabia’s Energy Ministry said Sunday, according to Saudi state media as reported by Al Jazeera. There were no casualties. Several news agencies reported the damaged tower is in the King Abdullah Financial District, the capital’s business hub. The Saudi-led coalition’s spokesman, Maj. Gen. Turki al-Maliki, said air defenses destroyed several ballistic missiles fired by the Iran-aligned Houthis — two toward Riyadh and one toward the Eastern Province — and intercepted two more missiles and a