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Houthis Claim Responsibility for Attack on Aramco Facility. Oil Could Surge as a Result.

The Aramco headquarters in Riyadh. (Credit: GETTY IMAGES)

The Houthis, an Iran-backed armed Yemeni political and religious group which controls territory containing 70-80% of the Yemeni population, allege that they carried out the attack on Saturday, striking a facility belonging to the Saudi oil company Aramco with missiles and drones.

"In response to the Saudi aggression against the capital Sana'a and the liberated provinces ... the Yemeni Armed Forces have carried out a qualitative military operation using a number of ballistic missiles and drones targeting Aramco Company in the Saudi enemy's capital, Riyadh," Brigadier General Yahya Saree, the Houthi military spokesman said in a statement on Saturday.

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