The Iran-backed Houthis’ swift advance in Yemen and attacks on Saudi Arabia have left the Gulf Arab kingdom with few options to respond, all of which carry heavy costs.

Saudi Arabia could run out of export stocks within days if the east-west pipeline, which carries crude across the kingdom to its Red Sea coast, is not brought back into operation.

CAIRO (AP) — Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen overnight claimed new attacks on neighboring Saudi Arabia, as Yemen’s Saudi-backed government described the rebels’ swift advance along the Red Sea coast as a “painful” development in a new front in the Iran war.

Widow confronts U.S. presidents and Saudi Arabia, demanding answers on alleged 9/11 ties 25 years later.

The rebels’ capture of Mokha could boost Iran’s strategy of driving up world oil and gas prices to pressure the United States, experts say.

A satellite image shows an area before black smoke was seen rising from an area of Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline, south of Medina, Hejaz Region, Saudi Arabia, September 9, 2026. European Union/Copernicus Sentinel-3/Handout via REUTERS

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If they want to be friends with the USA, they cannot continue to deny all of this,” said the woman, who lost her husband in the 2001 terror attacks.