Houthi attack on Riyadh airport will force rethink of Donald Trump’s strategy

Published October 11, 2026 · Category: News

Overview

US president’s plan to park the conflicts in Iran and Yemen, while blaming Ukraine for high diesel prices, has unravelled

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The reckless missile attack on King Khalid international airport in Riyadh on Saturday did not just export the death and misery inside Yemen to Saudi Arabia, it also left Donald Trump forced to reconsider his diplomatic and political strategy designed to take him into the midterm elections next month.

Details

The US president plan’s had only been unveiled on Saturday. It was to blame what he described as “a world problem” – spiralling diesel prices – on the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, saying his attacks on Russian oil refineries were the cause. He was going to keep the political temperature down on his war of choice in Iran and its spillover in Yemen until after the midterms.

Source

Originally published at www.theguardian.com.

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