Will the Houthis attack another Saudi oil facility before Aug 21?
67% of users predicted YES — the community got this one right. 3 predictions cast.
Yemen's Houthi rebels attacked Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast on August 9, 2026, striking the facility with a drone. Saudi Arabia's Energy Ministry confirmed a fire broke out at dawn and was extinguished by Aramco firefighting teams, with no injuries reported. The Iran-backed Houthis said the strike was retaliation for Saudi drone incursions into Yemen's Saada and Hajjah governorates.
Aramco chief executive Amin Nasser said the attack, along with other recent strikes on company facilities, had caused some production interruptions but no material operational or financial impact, and that operations would be restored quickly. The strike came amid a broader escalation of Houthi attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure that summer, which also included a claimed attack on a Saudi oil tanker earlier in August, as the group opened what analysts described as a new front tied to the wider US-Iran conflict.
Community voting favored this outcome, with 67 percent predicting YES, correctly anticipating that the Houthis would strike another Saudi facility before the resolution date.