Saudi Arabia: the Houthis claim a missile and drone strike on an Aramco site in Riyadh

France 24 reports that an AFP journalist saw firefighters trying to put out a fire at Aramco's refinery in Riyadh, with ambulances and police vehicles nearby. Geo News repeats the same description.

Vedomosti, citing the AP agency, writes that the police have blocked access roads and that security measures have been strengthened around the site. According to the newspaper, neither Saudi Aramco nor the Saudi government's International Communications Center responded to AP.

Tabnak, an Iranian website, describes the Riyadh refinery as the only large refinery in the capital and the center of the country, with a capacity of around 120,000 to 130,000 barrels per day. It adds that regional media reported, in the morning, a significant disruption to flights at Riyadh's King Khalid Airport and at Dammam Airport. This information comes from these regional media, which Tabnak does not name in the texts.

Russian press in the corpus, including Interfax and Vedomosti, follows AP. Interfax notes that the agency does not indicate the causes of the fire. None of the four Russian texts mention the Houthi claim or the coalition's denial; they rely on other sources, TASS on the Yemeni army, RIA Novosti on an anonymous interlocutor in Sanaa.

Lithuanian media 15min and Verslo žinios start from the company. Verslo žinios presents Aramco as "the flagship of the Saudi economy" and notes that the circumstances remain unclear. The texts do not report the detailed claim.

Belgian press adds a historical reminder. According to VRT NWS, a ceasefire had been in place since 2022 between the Houthis and the government army supported by Riyadh, before the war opposing the United States and Israel to Iran.

These differences measure what each corpus retains and cites. They say nothing about what happened in Riyadh: on this point, the only verifiable information from witnesses remains the smoke and flames.

Verslo žinios and 15min are reconstructing the timeline. In July, the Houthis announced a maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia and attacked Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea. In August, an attack targeted an airport and an Aramco facility in Najran.

Vedomosti is adding Saudi dates. The Houthis allegedly attacked several cities in the kingdom, including Aramco sites, on September 8. The East-West oil pipeline was suspended on September 11 after strikes near Riyadh and Medina.

TASS indicates that the Houthis launched an offensive in the southwest in early August and took the port of Mokha and access to Bab el-Mandeb on September 10 and 11. According to Vedomosti, France will send troops to protect the Yanbu oil port. Sud Ouest quotes Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, who says the deployment of French soldiers and defense systems aims solely to protect exports.

Combat figures come from different parties. According to TASS, the spokesperson for the Yemeni government army, Colonel Majed Al-Nuzaili, claims that 474 attacks in 24 hours killed or injured 1,540 Houthis, mainly on the Taiz fronts, and destroyed or neutralized 216 pieces of equipment.

RIA Novosti quotes a source in Sanaa: six airstrikes targeted the Al-Hafa camp east of the capital, the An-Nahdayn camp to the south, and military sites near Mount Attan.

Iranian media YJC and Tabnak recall Ansarallah's statement from the previous day: more than 90 attacks in 24 hours against Yemen, and over 1,300 in recent weeks. The Straits Times mentions, via an AI-generated summary, a warning from the World Food Programme: three-quarters of Yemenis do not meet their basic food needs.