Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said on Sunday (August 9, 2026) they had struck an oil facility on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast after the Gulf kingdom said it had extinguished a fire at the site.

“No injuries were ⁠reported,” the Saudi Energy ‌Ministry said in a post on X, ‌adding that the “relevant authorities were completing the necessary procedures to deal ‌with the incident”. The Ministry did not immediately specify the cause of the fire.

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Jizan ​is on the Red ⁠Sea near the ⁠border with Yemen. The facility was also targeted by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in July.

The group’s military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the Houthis had “succeeded in targeting the Aramco refinery in Jazan with a drone, and the strike was precise”.

He added the attack on the facility operated by Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil firm was launched in response to incursions by drones from the Gulf monarchy into northwest Yemen.

A 2022 truce in Yemen’s civil war, which Saudi Arabia entered more than a decade ago on the side of the internationally recognised government, appeared to collapse last month.

(With inputs from AFP, Reuters and ANI)