Energy and Environment

Houthi rebels launch wide-scale drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities

By Hunter Lovell
Published September 14, 2019 6:52pm ET
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Houthi rebels launch wide-scale drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities
Smoke fills the sky at the Abqaiq oil processing facility on Saturday in Saudi Arabia. Drones claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels attacked the world's largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia and a major oilfield operated by Saudi Aramco early Saturday, sparking a huge fire at a processor crucial to global energy supplies. | (Validated UGC via AP)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for drone attacks on major oil facilities in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, according to the Associated Press.

The Houthi-run Al-Masirah news agency reported that Houthi rebels successfully conducted a “large-scale” operation involving 10 drones that targeted the largest oil processing facility in the world at Abqaiq and an oil field at Khurais, citing a quote from a Yemen armed forces representative.

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