Yemen’s Houthis hit Saudi Aramco refinery with drones - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Mar 19, 2021

A man photographs debris from 2020 Houthi attack on a Saudi Aramco oil facility in Jeddah. — Yemen's Houthi rebels said on March 19, 2021, that they had attacked a Saudi Aramco refinery in Riyadh with drones. Here, a man uses his phone to take pictures of debris following a Houthi missile attack on the Saudi Aramco oil facility in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea city of Jeddah on Nov. 24, 2020. — FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP via Getty Images

Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they attacked a state-owned Aramco refinery in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Friday with six explosive drones.

“The designated target was hit with high precision,” Houthi spokesperson Yahya Sarae’e wrote on Twitter.

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