At least three loud blasts (click here) were heard and three clouds of smoke could be seen in the sky above the centre of Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh on Wednesday, according to Reuters witnesses.
There was no immediate comment from the government.
Earlier on Wednesday, Saudi Arabia's military brought down a Houthi drone at an airport in the southern city of Abha, Saudi-owned broadcaster Al Arabiya reported citing field sources.
The sources said air traffic was not interrupted.
Yemen's armed Houthi movement said earlier it had launched a drone strike on a facility belonging to state oil firm Saudi Aramco, though the company said its facilities there were operating "normally and safely"....
FOX News is licensing genocide. Case in point.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson (click here) let loose an epic rant arguing against U.S. military involvement in Syria after the latest chemical attack in the country. The Saturday attack, which left dozens dead, has yet to be answered by the U.S. or other Western governments, but Donald Trump has vowed that Assad will "pay a heavy price."
Carlson's rant called into question whether or not Assad was responsible for the chemical attack, claiming it was not in his interest, and Carlson even went as far as to suggest a similar attack last year was a false flag and the U.S. response was a clear mistake....
Neither the war between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, nor the civil war in Syria with spill over into Iraq and Turkey, should be viewed as right or just. They need to end and return peace to the region. There is absolutely no room for inflammatory commentary by FOX News. NONE!
The United Nations needs to start counting the numbers of inspirational media to war that exists. This is the beginning of licensing genocide and it needs to end.
The attack of chemical weapons wasn't necessary at all. There is no justification for it and the reason there has been no involvement by the USA or other Western powers, is because the facts are yet not disclosed. Any idea that such weapons can be used by anyone is the mistake Mr. Carlson is making. Chemical weapons do not solve any problem of war, they only escalate it.
I might remind anyone who cares, the United Kingdom is still the victim of a chemical weapons attack. None of this should be tolerated regardless the country.
10,000 people have died (click here) as a result of the war in Yemen, over 5,000 of them have been civilians.
Except we've been hearing that statistic for close to a year now, one that was conservative to begin with. Now, after 1,000 days in conflict have passed, it's time to get real about the true impact of the war as it goes far beyond 10,000 and here's why.
Getting accurate information from Yemen's war zone is undoubtedly difficult. In fact, statistics often come from those health centres that count their dead, but there are many other hospitals and facilities that don't.
Casualties include combatants and civilians - victims of direct aggression, though many others have fallen foul of the conflict and the actions of the Saudi-led coalition and Houthi forces, even if they weren't directly caught up in the fighting or branded as collateral damage.
Many have perished due to starvation, or a lack of access to healthcare and medical aid.
In November 2017, Save the Children reported that 130 children were dying every day, with 50,000 children already believed to have died in 2017.
In December 2016, UNICEF reported that a child dies every 10 minutes from preventable diseases such as diarrhoea, malnutrition and respiratory tract infections. And the UK-based NGO, Disasters and Emergencies Committee's recent report put the number of deaths from preventable causes at 10,000....
Medical assistance should be available to all people, even in a war zone.
All too often Assad has bombed hospitals when realizing where the "White Helmuts" were taking the wounded. That is an atrocity that should never be tolerated. Leaders like Assad believe those being rescued are the enemy and are in medical facilities, allowed to be healed and returned to war. That may be the case and it is legal.
What is not legal is killing everyone in a hospital because there are soldiers and generals healing their wounds. Field hospitals are protected areas and so are hospitals in Syria, except for those Assad believes holds his enemies, the so called Rebels. Bombing hospitals and food warehouses is an illegal act of war. People are not suppose to starve in war torn areas either. If the people feed the soldiers that is part of the dynamic of war.
STARVATION is a war crime! Starvation is a human rights violation. No exceptions!
The dynamics of war is one of the reasons countries should think long and hard about war, civil or otherwise. The civil war in Syria started because of a large shift of people from the droughted farm lands to the cities. It caused a increasing scarcity of food and water. Killing started. It should have ended by now, except, the Middle East is a powder keg where once unleashed it is difficult to end the fighting.
It is difficult to end the fighting because of the enormous divisions in religion, culture, ethnicity and basic loyalties and language. The USA should never have lit the flame. Ad to that Daesh. Daesh started the alliances within the Middle East to end not just the killing by Daesh, but, the charismatic impact that could lead to a larger number of countries seeing the deaths in Syria. Unfortunately, as the war with Daesh resolves and the countries are victors to the madmen; there lingers fears and OPPORTUNITY by some to continue to kill in the name of sovereignty.
The war with Daesh is over. There are minority groups at best and the region should be seeking peaceful victories to turn into economic alliances. But, the idea Syria's Assad and Yemen's Houthis are still stating there is a war to be fought brings forward, "Who says so?" The answer seems to point to Iran.
Genocide of any kind for any reason cannot be tolerated.
When Nasrallah stated Daesh was the enemy, the fighting and killing stops at Daesh's defeat. It's defeat in the Middle East is realized. Iran should not be escalating any conflict anywhere realizing that Daesh functioned on opportunity. Daesh would not have organized if it weren't for the Iraq invasion by the USA. It's leader was a former USA prisoner in an Iraqi prison camp.
Iran needs to assist Syria's Assad and the Yemeni Houthis to the peace table, not munitions.
