Video footage showed a large plume of black smoke rising from an area near Riyadh’s international airport.

Riyadh is paying a steep price for the Iran war. Help from Washington remains circumscribed.

Iran said that Saudi Arabia, which is facing threats by Iran-backed Houthi rebels and Iraqi militias, called off a high-level meeting planned in Oman.

“This is the first day that Iran really started winning the war,” a Yemeni official said of Houthi territorial gains that give Tehran leverage over a second major waterway.

Rebel control of the Bab al-Mandab Strait would be a setback for the Trump administration in its conflict with Tehran.

In war-weary Lebanon, Israeli strikes have intensified in response to Hezbollah drone attacks.