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Saudi Arabia drone attacks

October 2019

  • The Dhamar detention facility was bombed by a coalition airstrike on 2 September 2019.

    America is likely complicit in war crimes in Yemen. It's time to hold the US to account

    Mohamad Bazzi
    Saudi-led forces have deliberately targeted civilians since the war’s early days – and US officials have done little to stop it

24 September 2019

  • Saudi foreign affairs minister, Adel al-Jubeir

    US patience with Iran not inexhaustible, warns Saudi Arabia

    Saudi minister says military response to attack on oil facilities still being considered

23 September 2019

  • Boris Johnson on an escalator

    Boris Johnson calls for 'Trump deal' to fix Iran nuclear standoff

    PM says president could come up with better pact, in apparent shift from European position

22 September 2019

  • Captured military hardware at an Iranian defence museum opened on Saturday.

    Iran says it will destroy any aggressor as tensions build in Gulf

    Iran’s foreign minister not confident war can be avoided, but promises any conflict will not be ‘limited’

19 September 2019

  • Remains of missiles displayed by Saudi Arabia

    How did oil attack breach Saudi defences and what will happen next?

    Escalation is dangerous because infrastructure could be exposed to retaliation

17 September 2019

  • This image provided on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, by the U.S. government and DigitalGlobe and annotated by the source, shows damage to the infrastructure at at Saudi Aramco’s Kuirais oil field in Buqyaq, Saudi Arabia. The drone attack Saturday on Saudi Arabia’s Abqaiq plant and its Khurais oil field led to the interruption of an estimated 5.7 million barrels of the kingdom’s crude oil production per day, equivalent to more than 5% of the world’s daily supply. (U.S. government/Digital Globe via AP)

    Trump says US response to oil attack depends on Saudi Arabia's assessment

    US secretaries of state and energy both explicitly blamed Iran for the attack but Trump suggests US did not have definitive evidence

16 September 2019

  • Donald Trump has hinted that the US believes Iran is responsible for attacks on oil plants in Saudi Arabia over the weekend that raised fears of a fresh conflict in the Middle East

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    Donald Trump says Iran appears to be responsible for Saudi oil attacks – video

  • An Aramco oil facility near al-Khurj area, just south of the Saudi capital Riyadh.

    Business live
    Oil prices spike after Saudi drone attack causes biggest disruption ever – as it happened

  • SAUDI-US-OIL-ENERGY-ARAMCO<br>This satellite overview handout image obtained September 16, 2019 courtesy of Planet Labs Inc. shows damage to oil/gas infrastructure from weekend drone attacks at Haradh Gas Plant on September 14, 2019 in Saudi Arabia. - Drone attacks on key Saudi oil facilities have halved crude output from OPEC’s biggest exporter, catapulting oil prices by the largest amount since the first Gulf War. The crisis has focused minds on unrest in the crude-rich Middle East, with Tehran denying Washington’s charge that it was responsible.Brent oil prices leapt 20 percent on Monday to chalk up the biggest intra-day daily gain since 1991. (Photo by HO / PLANET LABS INC. / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT “AFP PHOTO / Planet Labs Inc. / HO” - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS == NO ARCHIVEHO/AFP/Getty Images

    'Nobody can stop it': Saudi oil attack signals an escalating crisis

  • Smoke billows from an Aramco oil facility in Abqaiq after a drone attack on Saturday morning.

    Middle East drones signal end to era of fast jet air supremacy

  • The world ignored the warning signs – and now the Middle East is on the brink

    Simon Tisdall

  • Saudi Arabia oil attack: Trump hints at action as US points finger at Iran

  • Saudi oil attacks push prices up by highest amount since 1988

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  • Everything you need to know about the Saudi Arabia oil attacks

15 September 2019

  • Satellite imagery shows smoke rising from Saudi Arabia’s Ab qaiq oil processing facility.

    Iran denies launching drone attacks on Saudi oil facility

    Foreign ministry counters accusations from US secretary of state with threats to US bases
  • The claim by US officials that Iran was responsible for the oilfields attack came with no marshalled public evidence.

    Saudi attack dampens faint chance of a Trump-Iran meeting

    Despite no specific evidence of Iranian involvement, the US treat Yemen’s Houthi rebels as tame creatures of Tehran
  • Aramco Attack 1

    Drone attacks on Saudi plant could hit global oil supplies

    Explosions halve Saudi output and reduce global production by 5%

14 September 2019

  • Thick smoke rises from the Aramco refinery in Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia.

    Major Saudi Arabia oil facilities hit by Houthi drone strikes

  • Saudi Arabia: major fire at world's largest oil refinery after attack – video

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