The Saudi-led coalition said a projectile struck a terminal at Riyadh’s airport Sunday, a day after a missile attack killed 13 people and injured 309.
An unidentified projectile struck Saudi Arabia’s main international airport Sunday, injuring people a day after a deadly missile attack at the same site raised questions about whether the United States would join another conflict in the region.
Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation confirmed the death of a Pakistani resident and injuries to 11 others in the new attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. It said authorities were assessing damage and checking the safety of airport facilities.
The Saudi-led coalition said the projectile struck Terminal 4, causing a fire that authorities were working to control. It also reported intercepting and destroying a cruise missile near the airport.
Fuck the Saudies and their psycho murderous king. It’s despicable how USA has supported that religiously fanatic regime for decades, and it clearly shows the hypocracy in being against a somewhat similar religiously fanatic regime in Iran.
They are both equally bad, but USA is the true villain, for trying to control the oil of the region without any respect for either democracy or the good of the people.You are quite right except that most dont know the houthis practice a unique version of Islam that is neither sunni nor shiite. Saudi Arabia has been trying to colonize them for generations now in part because Saudi Arabia wants to dictate Islam. They court Iranian support not because of religion but because Yemen has been facing Saudi pressure for ages now.
I must admit I didn’t know that either. But I do know that Saudi Arabia has tried to be an influence on Islam, and they are leveraging Mecca for that.
Most dont realize the House of Saud invaded Mecca and Medina to occupy it, they didn’t get it out of some benevolent religious process.
Edit: in fact they allied with extremist tribes that believed in a literal reading of the Quran and when they took over mecca they aggressively removed the pluralist, multi-school institutions and the indigenous practitioners which were much more allegorical in their reading. Fast forward today and most Islamic groups have been pushed further to the extreme as a result.
Do you have any further reading on this? I would love to learn more.
The Houthis are real men, the saudis are soft.
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I don’t think you realize how big that family is, they have dozens to take over the throne if necessary.
Not dozens, thousands, if not more. Kill them all.
That’s because it’s not a family per se; it’s more of a tribe.
The Saudi regime isn’t “religiously fanatic” in 2026 and hasn’t been for a while. MBS is, like most other Middle Eastern dictators, going the secular-ish nationalist autocrat route these days. Besides, the idea that “religious fanatics” should have some kind of solidarity between them is very strange considering the centuries-old bad blood between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and in any case the Iranian and Saudi regimes operate completely differently.
Notice how none of these “religious fanatics” have faith in any god who wants them to abide by reason, justice and fairness and equality to everyone. They all believe in a god that grants them specifically execlusive unjustfiable supramacy. In reality they are ruthless psycopaths who abuse an unreasonable unjust fake version of -insert religon here- as narrative to exploit vulurable people for money and power.
Sharia law, enough said.
That’s not what the word “fanatic” means, but also Sharia law is a thin veneer of religiosity that the MBS regime violates on a daily basis (you can quite famously get alcohol in Saudi Arabia, for example).
Yes it is, you have to be a fanatic to base the law of the land on 1500 years old superstition. It’s no different than fanatic christians in USA that contrary to scientific evidence want laws that make life worse because (they think) that’s what their religion says.
Being a fundamental Islamist is being a religious fanatic.Sharia law is a thin veneer of religiosity that the MBS regime violates on a daily basis
Doesn’t change the fact that there is death penalty to “offend” Islam in Saudia Arabia based on Sharia law.
And what they call offend can be an extremely mild questioning of a religious practice.So essentially you’re defining “fanatic” to mean (or at least include in its definition) “non-secularist.” That’s a possible definition of the word, but it’s not a particularly useful one, and while I could go at length into why that’s the case I’ll just say that one group of people that wanted to base the law of the land on 1500 years old superstition was early abolitionists. British sailors capturing slavers might as well have been screaming “deus vult.”* Which, you know, if that’s a group you’re comfortable calling religious fanatics I’m not going to stop you, but I think most people wouldn’t be.
*Just to drive this point home:
These dedicated Parliamentarians had access to the legal draughtsmanship of James Stephen, Wilberforce’s brother-in-law. They often saw their personal battle against slavery as a divinely ordained crusade. On Sunday, 28 October 1787, Wilberforce wrote in his diary: “God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.”
-Wikipedia.
So you call it normal to execute people simply because they don’t believe in Islam?
That’s not what I said; my point is by widening the meaning of the word too much it loses its explanatory power. When you say that the people running Saudi Arabia (chiefly MBS) are religious fanatics, what you’re doing is taking some of their actions and using them to derive a hypothesis about the character of those people. However, for this to make sense this hypothesis needs to survive contact with the evidence or it must be discarded, and the hypothesis that—say—MBS is a religious fanatic doesn’t do that. Neither his domestic nor foreign agendas match up with someone who considers religious concerns a priority in their governance, so the situation we’re looking at (the fact that Saudi Arabia executes people for criticizing Islam) needs to be explained some other way.
The Saudi regime is pretty evil, but I almost pity them
This is so fucking embarrassing for them. They soend so much on their military, and have backing from the US. Despite that the Houthis, a veritable rebel group, is doing circles around them
This war is as big of a failure for them as The Line
The Saudis are some of the architects of this war. Their leadership, their royal family, are dead men. Wait for it.
President Donald Trump said afterward that the U.S. was considering joining Saudi military operations against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
“Considering joining”?! Houthis (and many others) are bankrolled by Iran, they got the greenlight because trump started a war on Iran, and SA is a target because they helped trump…
“We may. We’re gonna look at it,” Trump told reporters. “We just found out about the recent attack. So we’ll make a decision. We move very quickly.”
Moving quickly is why everything keeps spiraling out of control…
Saturday’s strike drew widespread condemnation and intensified pressure on the kingdom and its allies to respond to the Houthi rebels. The attack was the deadliest to hit the kingdom in a decade and marked a sharp escalation in the Yemen-based Houthis’ campaign against the leading oil exporter, which has already rattled the global economy.
People don’t fucking understand the Houthis…
They live and operate in massive tunnels wide enough for two lane roads for giant trucks. They just live in there like mole people assembling drones nonstop out of raw materials. They’ve been building Yemen for a decade, and even if/when you find them, they’re deep enough it takes state of the art “but ker busters” to even reach them.
And trump gave all of ours away for Israel to commit a genocide with…
The Houthis are going to keep blowing shit up till Iran tells them to stop. And Iran isn’t going to tell them to stop till trump fucks off.
Nothing else will solve this, even if we nuke Iran or invade and overthrow them.
If Iran is gone the Houthis will get even more extreme, because as crazy as Iran is, they’re still holding the Houthis back.
and SA is a target because they helped trump…
Hell no? There’s a reason the Houthis are only attacking Saudi Arabia, and it’s the Yemeni Civil War. Iran helps the Houthis because they have a common enemy in Saudi Arabia, which may have something to do with Saudi Arabia having starved almost a hundred thousand Yemeni children to death. The Houthis justify their airport strikes in particular as retaliation for a (claimed, I can’t find reporting on it) Saudi strike on Sanaa International Airport, which wouldn’t be the first time. The beef between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis is real, bloody and far more than just an extension of America’s beef with Iran. The only thing that would stop the Houthis from blowing things up in Saudi Arabia is for the Saudis to stop blowing up things in Houthi-held Yemen.
