Punjab, Oct. 11 -- The casualty toll from an attack on Riyadh's airport has reached the hundreds, according to Saudi officials, and President Trump has said he will consider joining Saudi strikes on the Houthis in response. Washington has separately asked European allies to release strategic diesel reserves quickly.
The attack
Saudi officials put the dead and injured in the hundreds. An attack on the main civil airport of the Saudi capital is a different order of event from the oil-facility and border strikes of previous years - Riyadh airport is where the kingdom's entire aviation link to the world passes through, and an attack causing casualties on that scale is an attack on civilians at an obvious scale.
Trump, who earlier this week s...