In response to new attacks, Saudi Aramco asked its employees to evacuate the company’s headquarters and work remotely

Six informed sources reported today, Thursday (October 22, 2026), that the giant Saudi oil company Aramco has asked its employees to vacate its headquarters in Dhahran and work remotely. Aramco did not respond to a request for comment.

This is the first time that Aramco has asked its employees to evacuate its headquarters since the start of the war with Iran.

The Houthis caused severe damage to the company's headquarters earlier this month when they targeted the building, causing a fire that spread to several floors. The headquarters includes an operations center that helps the world's largest oil company supervise onshore and offshore oil platforms, refineries, export terminals, and thousands of kilometers of pipelines.

Two people were killed yesterday, Wednesday, after Saudi air defenses intercepted a drone that was trying to target a facility in Aramco’s Shaybah oil field in the southeast of the Kingdom.

The military coalition led by Saudi Arabia, in support of the internationally recognized government in Yemen, announced today, Thursday, the interception and destruction of a drone in the Riyadh region. Coalition spokesman Turki Al-Maliki reported on the

The Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation also announced on Thursday that the number of deaths as a result of the attack that targeted King Fahd International Airport in Dammam yesterday evening, Wednesday, had risen to two, indicating the resumption of operational operations at the airport and the return of air traffic to normal.

The authority said, in a statement published on its account on the

The US and Israeli militaries have prepared specific plans to launch new strikes on Iran after the US midterm elections scheduled for next November 3, according to what the New York Times reported, citing US officials and other people briefed on the deliberations related to these plans.

As planning for a short but intense military operation progressed, the US and Israeli militaries intensified their training, flying sorties over Iraq to practice attack maneuvers. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel this week to discuss launching new strikes, according to what the newspaper quoted American officials as saying.

According to the newspaper, the targets are likely to include Iran's energy infrastructure, nuclear facilities, and an arsenal of missiles and drones.

Officials believe that another large-scale round of attacks could push the Iranian economy to the brink of collapse and force the country to make diplomatic concessions after nearly eight months of conflict.

At the same time, the American website Axios quoted Israeli and American officials as saying that dozens of Israeli Air Force fighters carried out an air sortie on Monday, arriving close to the Iranian border. The operation took place more than 800 miles from Israel, a week before the Israeli elections, and on the same day that Hegseth met with Netanyahu at the Israeli Ovda Air Base. The sortie was not related to Hegseth's visit.

While some Israeli and American officials said that the sortie was not unusual and that it was aimed at deterring Iran, it could have led to a miscalculation, which could have provoked an Iranian response and led to a renewal of the war.