Iran war live: 12 killed in Riyadh, Trump to speak with Saudi Arabia’s MBS — SkimNews
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- Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority reported that a Houthi attack on Riyadh's King Khalid airport killed 12 people and injured 309, marking the latest deadly strike on Saudi aviation infrastructure.
- Saudi-led coalition forces destroyed a drone launched towards the country's eastern region in the immediate aftermath of the airport attack.
- President Donald Trump said he would "take a look" at joining Saudi Arabia in striking the Houthis, placing potential US military escalation directly on the table.
- Trump also announced he plans to call Saudi Prime Minister Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to coordinate the response.
- The article's subhead flags a parallel debate in Washington over restarting strikes on Iran — a second escalation track running alongside the Houthi front that the body does not elaborate on.
- The Hill's separate headline updates the US troop death toll in the Iran war to 21, a parallel casualty figure absent from the Riyadh-focused coverage.
Why it matters: With 12 killed at a major Saudi airport and Trump now weighing direct US participation in Saudi Houthi operations alongside a planned call to MBS, the conflict is on track to expand beyond US-Iran hostilities into a broader Gulf coalition campaign while Saudi airspace remains under sustained attack — 309 injured in a single incident.
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