RIYADH, 26 October, 2026 (Nosheen): Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group on Monday claimed responsibility for attacks on Saudi Arabia’s East-West crude oil pipeline pumping stations and Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport, as escalating hostilities threaten regional stability and disrupt global oil supplies, Reuters reported. The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen earlier announced that it had destroyed two ballistic missile launchers in the capital, Sanaa, including one allegedly used to launch a missile towards Riyadh that was intercepted by Saudi forces. Saudi authorities had not immediately confirmed the latest Houthi attack claims. The Houthis have increasingly targeted Saudi airports, ports and oil installations with ballistic missiles and drones, putting pressure on the kingdom amid the wider regional conflict. The group also claimed to have struck King Khalid International Airport, which resumed operations at two terminals on Sunday following an earlier attack claimed by the Houthis that reportedly killed 13 people, marking the deadliest such incident in Saudi Arabia in more than a decade. Meanwhile, senior officials from Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan, members of the Mecca Pact, were expected to meet Iranian officials in Tehran on Monday to discuss regional coordination, according to two people familiar with the matter. The planned meeting would mark the first high-level contact between Iran and all three countries since attacks on Saudi Arabia intensified. Saudi Arabia temporarily shut down its 1,200-kilometre East-West oil pipeline in September as a precaution following a drone attack that Riyadh and Baghdad said originated in Iraq. The pipeline has remained a vital export route for Saudi crude while the Strait of Hormuz has been largely closed amid the conflict. On Saturday, the Houthis also claimed to have targeted the pipeline, crude oil pumping stations, an Aramco facility in Yanbu and the Rabigh refinery, although Saudi authorities did not confirm those claims. The Saudi-led coalition said on Monday that it had conducted another military operation against Houthi positions in Yemen, destroying five tunnels used to store ballistic missiles, four missile launchers and a missile storage facility. Coalition spokesperson Turki al-Maliki said the operation also targeted Houthi supply routes, fighters and military equipment along front lines, adding that deterrent measures would continue to protect civilians. Saudi Arabia has intensified its strikes against the Houthis since the group seized strategic areas along Yemen’s Red Sea coast last month and advanced towards the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a critical international shipping route for Gulf oil producers. The latest escalation has effectively ended a United Nations-brokered truce that had largely held since 2022. Saudi Arabia intervened in Yemen’s civil war in 2015 at the head of a coalition supporting the internationally recognised government, a year after the Houthis seized the capital, Sanaa.