Missiles hit the Al-Maashiq complex in Aden on Thursday, 15 October, killing five and injuring 16, according to Health Minister Qasim Buhaibeh. Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani said the prime minister and cabinet were unharmed.
On the night of Friday, 16 October, two projectiles struck the airport area hosting a military unit aligned with the Saudi-backed government, according to a security official and a traffic controller.
Coalition spokesperson Turki al-Maliki said the Houthis launched 20 attacks on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh in October, killing 17 people and wounding 333.
Missiles struck the Al-Maashiq palace complex in Aden on Thursday, 15 October, the seat of Yemen's internationally recognised government since 2015. Health Minister Qasim Buhaibeh said five people were killed and 16 injured, among them security guards and civilian employees. Information Minister Moammar al-Eryani said five missiles hit the complex and that the prime minister and cabinet were unharmed. The cabinet described the weapons as missiles and drones, and witnesses reported loud booms near the palace. Other accounts give different figures: a Yemeni information ministry statement put the dead at two guards of the prime minister, while another report citing officials gave 10 injured.
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Yahya Saree, the Houthi military spokesman, said fighters had bombed what he called the Saudi military operations headquarters in Aden. He described any Saudi military presence as a legitimate target, framing the strikes as hits on Saudi reinforcements wherever they are. The Houthi-run SABA news agency added that the compound was administered by Saudi officers and held weapons depots. Those claims could not be independently verified. Houthi fighters briefly seized the palace during the battle for Aden after the civil war broke out in 2014, and a Saudi-led intervention the following year ended in a bloody stalemate before a 2022 truce.
Two projectiles struck the airport in Aden on the night of Friday, 16 October, according to a security official and a traffic controller. Both said the hit area hosted a military unit aligned with the Saudi-backed government. Houthi military sources told SABA that forces had struck a command centre at the Al Badr base, next to the airport, and hit ammunition depots there. Official security sources told South24 that two missiles reached airport facilities, with no victims reported so far. AP initially reported no immediate claim of responsibility, and no immediate word on casualties, while the Yemeni government had not yet commented.
The Saudi-led coalition spokesperson Turki al-Maliki said the Houthis had launched 20 attacks on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh in October, killing 17 people and wounding 333. The airport is one of the kingdom's main international aviation hubs. One report describes a missile barrage on the airport on Saturday, 10 October, that killed 13 and was the deadliest attack in the kingdom in the past decade. Saudi authorities said on Thursday, 15 October, that they had intercepted a missile fired from Yemen toward Medina province. The Houthis denied targeting the holy city and had earlier pledged not to strike airports in Mecca or Medina. Coalition figures for Abha airport near the Yemeni border cite three deaths and 28 injured, numbers the press has not verified.
Fighting between the Houthis and Saudi-backed forces resumed this year, with accounts giving either July or September as the restart. The Houthis have pushed along the Red Sea coast and resumed targeting Saudi vessels in the Bab el-Mandeb area. In early October government forces launched an offensive to retake Houthi-held areas, recovering ground near the strait. Saudi-led coalition air strikes continue against western Yemen, including areas around Sanaa. Iran is reported to have supplied weapons, money and training to the Houthis, a claim Tehran denies, saying it has not armed them in breach of a UN arms embargo. One account argues the Houthi position over Bab el-Mandeb opens a second pressure point in the US war with Iran, squeezing Saudi oil exports already diverted from the Strait of Hormuz.
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Missiles struck the presidential palace complex in Aden on Thursday, 15 October, and two projectiles hit the city's airport on the night of Friday, 16 October. Houthi forces claimed the strikes as attacks on Saudi military sites.
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