Saudi Arabia vows response after Houthi drone and missile attacks injure 73

Along the fractured borderlands of the Arabian Peninsula, a decade-long war has entered a sharper register: Yemen's Houthi movement struck four Saudi cities with drones and missiles on Tuesday, injuring 73 people and setting oil facilities ablaze, while Saudi Arabia vowed to answer force with force. Each side frames its violence as a response to the other's, a recursive logic of retaliation that has become the grammar of this conflict. What makes this moment distinct is not merely the scale of the strikes, but their timing — as the Red Sea emerges as one of the last open arteries for global oi