The Houthis announced that they targeted an Aramco facility in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, with ballistic missiles and drones, in the second attack of its kind within two weeks, amid the escalation of the confrontation with Saudi Arabia.
The UAE Attorney General announced on Saturday that investigations into the attack on board a Flydubai plane revealed that the co-captain planned to carry out a “terrorist operation” using an “emergency axe” to attack the pilot during the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv last Wednesday, while his motives are still unknown.
The UAE Public Prosecution did not reveal, according to investigations reported by the Emirates News Agency (WAM) on Saturday, the nationality of the co-pilot, but a Saudi source confirmed to Agence France-Presse that he is Omani. International media also reported that he was banned from flying in the Sultanate of Oman.
The Emirati report came after the first plane carrying Israelis returning to their country from the Emirates landed in Tel Aviv early Saturday, a plane belonging to the Israeli low-cost airline Arkia, after Fly Dubai temporarily suspended its flights to the Hebrew state.
The Emirati “WAM” agency quoted Public Prosecutor Hamad Saif Al Shamsi as saying that “investigations into the Flydubai flight FZ1073 incident revealed that the plane’s co-pilot had attempted to carry out a terrorist operation,” and that “he began implementing his plan during the flight, as he assaulted the plane’s pilot inside the cockpit using the emergency axe and tried to control the plane’s controls.”
He added, "Investigations are still ongoing to uncover all the circumstances of the incident, its motives, and the links associated with it."
The Houthis announced on Saturday (October 3, 2026) that they had targeted a facility belonging to the Aramco oil company in Riyadh with ballistic missiles and drones, for the second time in two weeks in light of the exchange of strikes with Saudi Arabia.
The military spokesman for the Houthis, Yahya Saree, said in a statement, “The Yemeni armed forces carried out a qualitative military operation with a number of ballistic missiles and drones targeting the Aramco company in the capital of the Saudi enemy, Riyadh,” pointing out that the hit was “accurate and direct, and led to the ignition of fires in the targeted sites.”
Flames and black smoke rose from a facility belonging to the Aramco oil company south of Riyadh, according to what an Agence France-Presse journalist reported earlier on Saturday, while the exchange of strikes continues between Saudi Arabia, which supports the government in Yemen, and the Houthis, who are supported by Iran.
Saudi Arabia had previously said that it intercepted six ballistic missiles launched by the Houthis towards Taif and Yanbu, but it did not indicate damage to Aramco facilities.
The Yemeni government army announced today, Saturday (October 3, 2025), that it had achieved field progress on the Sami front in Taiz Governorate, southeast of the country, following violent clashes with the Houthis.
The Armed Forces Media Center said that government forces, supported by popular resistance and military aviation, "were able to control Fort Sami and its surrounding areas, following battles that resulted in heavy losses among the Houthis in lives and equipment."
He added that government forces responded to a large-scale attack launched by the Houthis on Mount Han and other sites on the western front of the city of Taiz, accompanied by intense bombardment, noting that "the attack resulted in deaths, injuries, and prisoners of war among the attackers, and pushed the rest of the elements to retreat."
Meanwhile, the center said that battles were taking place between government forces and the Houthis on the fronts of the Al-Shamaytain, Al-Maafer and Jabal Habashi districts, in conjunction with the continued pursuit of the group’s members on the Sama front. The center did not provide a specific tally of human losses among the Houthis, but it spoke of dozens of bodies remaining in mountainous and coastal areas for days, without the Houthi group issuing any comment on that.
The Yemeni government army announced today, Saturday (October 3, 2026), an attack on “vital military targets” in the capital, Sanaa, confirming its ability to carry out “strategic attacks against the Houthis.”
Colonel Majid Al-Nuzaili, spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, said that the Armed Forces "carried out an attack on legitimate vital military targets in Sanaa." Al-Nuzaili stressed "the ability of the armed forces to carry out strategic attacks against the Houthis," without giving further details about the sites that were targeted.
On the other hand, Anis Al-Asbahi, spokesman for the Ministry of Health in the Houthi government (which is not internationally recognized), said that air strikes targeted sites near Al-Sabeen Maternity and Childhood Hospital, south of Sanaa, “which led to damage to the hospital building, its internal departments, and medical equipment, in addition to injuries and a state of panic among patients and arrivals.”
Al-Asbahi added, "Targeting hospitals and health facilities is a flagrant violation of international and humanitarian laws, and reveals the Saudi aggression's insistence on depriving the Yemeni people of their most basic rights to obtain health care."
Violent explosions rocked Sana'a earlier today, and eyewitnesses told the German News Agency (DPA) that air strikes targeted sites in Jabal al-Nahdain and Jabal Attan, south of Sana'a, in addition to the al-Hafa camp, east of Sana'a, while columns of smoke were seen rising from the targeted sites.
The authorities released a British/Iranian dual national on bail after his arrest in connection with a security incident at the American-run British air base in England.
The police counter-terrorism unit said in a statement that the 25-year-old man was arrested yesterday, Thursday, in central London, and that the police searched two properties in the British capital.
Two tankers were attacked while crossing the Strait of Hormuz, according to the British Maritime Trade Operations Authority, in the latest threat to shipping traffic in the strategic waterway.
The official spokesman for the Saudi-led military coalition, concerned with supporting the internationally recognized Yemeni government, Major General Turki Al-Maliki, announced in a tweet on his account on the X platform today, “the interception and destruction of three ballistic missiles launched by the terrorist Houthi militia towards Khamis Mushait.”
Regional and Western officials told Reuters that Saudi Arabia is planning an attack on the Iran-aligned Houthis, with options being considered including an operation on the coast to secure the Red Sea shipping lane or launching an attack on multiple fronts.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Friday (October 2, 2026) that any party proven to be involved in the Fly Dubai plane incident would pay a “very heavy price,” without providing evidence indicating any country’s responsibility.
