AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): U.S. State Department called on American citizens to “exercise increased caution” while traveling to Saudi Arabia, a travel advisory posted on its website said on Wednesday.
U.S. Mission personnel and their families are not permitted to use the airport in Abha without Chief of Mission approval, the note added. Abha airport has been frequently attacked by drones and missiles launched from Yemen, where a Saudi-led coalition has been battling the Ansarullah group.
Saudi Arabia’s largest oil plants were targeted in drone and missile attacks early Saturday morning that knocked out more than half of the kingdom’s global daily exports. Authorities told the public that the ensuing fires were contained and there were no casualties.
The facilities hit — Abqaiq, world’s largest oil processing facility and crude oil stabilization plant and Khurais, the country’s second-largest oilfield — are located in Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich Eastern Province.
Saudi Arabia and its allies launched the war on Yemen in March 2015 in an attempt to reinstall the Riyadh-allied former regime and crush the Houthi Ansarullah movement -- objectives that have failed to materialize due to Yemenis’ stiff resistance.
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18 September 2019 - 14:05
News ID: 976635
U.S. State Department called on American citizens to “exercise increased caution” while traveling to Saudi Arabia, a travel advisory posted on its website said on Wednesday.
