Sri Lanka, Oct. 11 -- Riyadh airport came under fresh attack on Sunday, October 11, the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Houthis said, a day after a strike blamed on the Iran-backed group killed 12 people. Coalition spokesman Major General Turki al-Maliki said an unidentified projectile struck Terminal 4 at King Khalid International Airport, causing a fire, and that the relevant authorities were responding at the scene. He added in a post on X that air defenses had "intercepted and destroyed" a cruise missile near the airport.
Earlier, Agence France-Presse journalists heard a powerful explosion in central Riyadh, while three residents in the city's north later reported hearing another blast. "The birds went into a frenzy after the soun...