Yemen’s rebels launch drone and missile strikes at Saudi energy facilities

Firefighters try to extinguish a blaze at an Aramco terminal in the southern border town of Jizan, Saudi Arabia (AP)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels unleashed one of their most intense barrages of drone and missile strikes on Saudi Arabia’s critical energy facilities, sparking a fire at one site and temporarily cutting oil production at another.

The salvo marked a serious escalation of rebel attacks on the kingdom as the war in Yemen rages into its eighth year and peace talks stall.