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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
James C. Reynolds

Why are Yemen’s Houthis attacking Saudi Arabia and how are they breaching its air defences?

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have launched a lightning offensive across the country's Red Sea coast, seizing control of the strategic Bab el-Mandeb strait and threatening to expand the frozen US-Israeli conflict with Iran to the east.

The land grab has been backed by a deadly campaign of deep strikes inside the kingdom. Over the weekend, Houthi missile and drone attacks struck King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, killing at least 13 people — marking the deadliest attack in the kingdom in more than a decade.

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