Saudi Energy Ministry Reports Damage to Aramco Building in Riyadh

An administrative building belonging to state oil giant Saudi Aramco in Riyadh sustained damage from falling debris following an attempted attack on Sunday, according to an official source at the Saudi Energy Ministry.

Witnesses observed blown-out windows across several floors of the Aramco Tower, located within the capital's King Abdullah Financial District, though no injuries or fatalities were reported. The incident occurred after the Saudi-led military coalition intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles and two cruise missiles launched toward Riyadh and the southern region by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement.

Civil Defense authorities in Saudi Arabia issued and subsequently lifted early-warning threat alerts in Riyadh and across the oil-rich Eastern Province, including Dammam, al-Ahsa, Abqaiq, and Dhahran. The renewed hostilities follow a resumption of fighting in July that shattered the 2022 United Nations-brokered truce in Yemen. The escalation coincided with reports from the Houthi-run health ministry in Sanaa that Saudi airstrikes on homes in the town of Bani Hushaish killed at least thirty-three people and wounded thirty-nine others.