Second Houthi strike hits Riyadh airport in two days; Iran calls US response to its terms ‘inadequate’

A second Houthi attack on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport killed one person and wounded eleven, Saudi authorities said Monday, a day after an earlier strike on the same airport killed twelve. Iran's security chief Mohsen Rezaei said Washington had accepted some of Tehran's seven conditions to end the wider war but called the response ‘inadequate’, without detailing which points remained unresolved. The Houthis, who say their campaign aims to retake territory lost on Yemen's Red Sea coast, have renewed warnings to airlines and oil-facility workers in Saudi Arabia.

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