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Saudi Aramco tells staff to evacuate Dhahran as clashes with Yemen's Houthis continue

Pakistan Published 22 October 2026, 17:55 · archived 22 Oct 2026

Saudi state oil company Aramco has told staff to evacuate its headquarters in Dhahran on the Gulf, six people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Thursday, as fighting between the world’s largest crude exporter and Yemen’s Houthis intensifies. Clashes between the Houthis and Yemen’s government have raged since the group pushed towards Bab el-Mandeb, a shipping ​chokepoint at the Red Sea’s mouth. The instruction to staff to evacuate the building and work remotely follows a wave of Houthi attacks on the kingdom, targeting the company and Saudi airports. The company did not immediately r...

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