An attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam on the evening of Wednesday 21 October killed two people, one Saudi and one Indian, and injured eight, the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said1. The injured include Yemeni, Bangladeshi and Nepali nationals2. No group has claimed the attack.
The same day, debris from a drone intercepted over the Shaybah Oilfield killed two foreign workers, one from the Philippines and one from Nepal, and injured a Pakistani and an Indian worker, the Saudi Energy Ministry said3. Ten days after missiles killed 13 people at Riyadh's King Khalid airport, the dead are now in the Eastern Province, home of The Kingdom's oil industry. Saudi Aramco told staff at its Dhahran headquarters to work remotely after a missile struck the complex the previous week, Reuters reported4.
On 21 October the US State Department ordered non-emergency staff and their families out of Saudi Arabia; spokesperson Tommy Pigott cited attacks by the Houthis (Yemen's Iran-aligned armed movement, which holds Sanaa) on civilian airports and infrastructure. Britain's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) updated its advice the same day: King Khalid International Airport "continues to be targeted", further attacks are "very likely", and Britons who want to leave should consider driving to a neighbouring country and flying from there5. Lufthansa and Air France have cancelled Riyadh flights to mid-November, although King Khalid partly reopened to Saudi carriers on 21 October6.
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said on 21 October that Cairo's support would "defend Saudi territory, and does not include an attack on Yemen"7. Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, warned that Egyptian involvement "would further complicate the situation"8.
