SANAA, YEMEN, 10 August. - (ANA) - Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen struck an oil refinery in Saudi Arabia, threatening to bring in members of a new Saudi-based military alliance into the conflict, and also attacked a Yemeni-government controlled port city as a 2022 UN-brokered truce in the war-torn country further frayed.

 

The rebels on August 9 said they attacked Saudi Aramco's refinery in the city of Jazan, with the Saudi Energy Ministry saying a fire had broken out at the site but was later extinguished with no injuries, without giving a cause.

 

Two days earlier, Saudi Arabia signed a defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan. 

 

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