Saudi Arabia is in a fight with the Houthis, a group that controls Sanaa and parts of north-west Yemen. Yemen is the country just south of Saudi Arabia. For years a truce set up by the United Nations mostly held. It has now collapsed.
The Houthi leader describes the attacks as tit-for-tat. He said the policy is “airports for airports, ports for ports.” This came after Sanaa’s airport was hit. The Saudi-backed Yemeni government said that strike aimed to stop an Iranian plane from landing there.
Saudi aviation officials counted at least 20 deaths and 356 injuries at airports from October 6 to 11. The worst strike hit Riyadh’s main airport on October 10 and killed at least 12 people. On Wednesday the Saudi-led coalition said it stopped a missile fired toward Riyadh.