New Delhi, Aug. 10 -- A fire broke out at Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery in southwestern Saudi Arabia on Sunday after Yemen's Houthi movement launched a drone strike against the facility, the latest escalation in a campaign that has steadily pressed closer to the Kingdom's critical energy infrastructure. The blaze was extinguished with no casualties reported at the site, but the attack marked something harder to contain: the Houthis demonstrating that their declared blockade of Saudi Arabia is no longer confined to shipping lanes.

this was not a stray missile but a claimed precision drone strike on a named target, announced within hours of impact.

Saudi Aramco chief executive Amin Nasser acknowledged recent attacks had caused "some produ...