Yemen's Houthis claim a drone attack on Saudi Arabia's Najran Airport

Yemen's Houthi group claimed on Tuesday, 4 August 2026 (13 Mordad 1405), that it carried out a drone strike on a "sensitive target" at Najran Airport in southern Saudi Arabia. The group's military spokesman, Yahya Saree, said on the social network X that the attack accurately hit its intended target.

He said the operation was a response to what he described as Saudi drone violations of Yemeni airspace over the provinces of Saada and Hajjah. Saree warned that any future violation of Yemen's airspace "will not pass without response and punishment."

Saudi authorities had made no comment on the claim at the time of the report, and it has not been independently verified. Security developments in the south of the Arabian Peninsula and along the region's shipping routes are among the factors shaping the risk premium in the global oil market, a point Chevron's chief executive also raised on Sunday, 2 August, when he pointed to risks in the Red Sea.