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Wednesday, August 5, 2026
Yemen’s Houthis say they attacked a Saudi oil tanker in the Red Sea
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A commercial vessel passes through an international shipping lane off Yemen’s Hanish Island in the Red Sea on July 27, 2026. (Khaled ZIAD/AFP)
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis claim to have attacked a Saudi oil tanker off Yanbu, in the Red Sea, as the rebels press on with their declared maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia.
The group “successfully targeted the Saudi oil tanker ‘Wafa’ in the northern Red Sea, off the coast of Yanbu, with a number of ballistic missiles,” their military spokesman Yahya Saree claims in a video statement, adding that this is the eighth ship they have targeted since the start of the blockade on July 22.
Saree did not say when the attack took place.
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