repeated strikes<\/a> on Riyadh\u2019s King Khalid International Airport. One such strike killed 13 people and wounded more than 300, making it the deadliest attack on Saudi Arabia in more than a decade.\n <\/p>\n\n \u201cThe continuing attacks from the Houthis on our ally Saudi Arabia are absolutely despicable,\u201d UK Defense Secretary Wes Streeting said in a statement. \u201cThe targeting of the airport in Riyadh in particular shows the lengths the Houthis are going to escalate the situation in the region.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Last month, the Iran-allied rebel group launched a lightning offensive on Yemen\u2019s western coast, capturing key territory, including the Bab al-Mandeb maritime chokepoint on the Red Sea, potentially expanding Tehran\u2019s influence over another trade corridor.\n <\/p>\n
\n Backed by Saudi warplanes, Yemen\u2019s anti-Houthi governmental ground forces have launched a counter-offensive to recapture lost territory. Despite a heavy airstrike campaign and a large ground offensive, Houthi rebels have remained in control over key locations, and continued launching missiles and drones on their adversaries.\n <\/p>\n
\n At least 53 newly recruited Yemeni governmental forces were killed in a ballistic missile attack by the Houthis on the southeastern Shabwa province Monday, local officials said.\n <\/p>\n
\n The attack was condemned by the US mission to Yemen which called it a \u201ccowardly attack by the Iran-backed Houthi militia\u201d on Yemenis who had \u201cvolunteered to keep their communities and country safe.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n This is a developing story and will be updated.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United Kingdom said Tuesday it will deploy fighter jets to defend Saudi Arabia against attacks by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-808618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}