Saudi Arabia said it had shot down drones fired by Iran-backed militias in Iraq that had targeted its petroleum facilities. Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, meanwhile, claimed to have attacked Saudi oil facilities as part of a separate but related conflict

In a post on X, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Yemen's state news agency Saba Nasruddin Amer, cited a military source in the Ministry of Defense, who characterised the Saudi statements as a cover-up for air defence failures