Oil prices jump after Yemen’s Houthis claim attacks on Saudi facilities

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · Sep 25, 2026 · 483 words · By John Power

Global Energy Markets US-Iran relations Middle East Geopolitical Conflict

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Oil prices jump after Yemen’s Houthis claim attacks on Saudi facilities Brent crude tops $106 a barrel after Iran-aligned rebel group claims to have successfully attacked Aramco facilities.

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What happened

Oil prices jump after Yemen’s Houthis claim attacks on Saudi facilities Brent crude tops $106 a barrel after Iran-aligned rebel group claims to have successfully attacked Aramco facilities.

Why it matters

Oil prices have jumped following renewed attacks on Saudi Arabia by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, including claimed strikes on facilities belonging to state-run energy giant Aramco.

Common ground

Brent crude, the key yardstick of global prices, rose more than 3 percent on Thursday as the attacks stoked fears of additional disruption to energy supplies already facing constraints due to the US-Israel war on Iran.

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Claim 1: “Aramco, which supplies roughly 10 percent of global oil demand”

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Claim 2: “UAE bars Iranian airlines as US sanctions squeeze Iran’s aviation sector”

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Claim 3: “Saudi-led coalition forces said earlier that they intercepted six ballistic missiles fired by the Houthis towards the kingdom.”

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Al Jazeera, Fox News, and Reuters (via Fox) all report that the Saudi-led coalition intercepted six ballistic missiles fired by the Houthis.

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web search NEUTRAL — Saudi-led coalition forces fighting Yemen’s Houthis say they have intercepted six ballistic missiles fired by the Iran-allied group towards cities in Saudi Arabia.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/24/saudi-led-coalition…

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web search NEUTRAL — Earlier Thursday, the Saudi-led coalition said its air defenses intercepted six Houthi ballistic missiles targeting the Saudi cities of Taif and Yanbu, as Saudi strikes continued against Houthi-held a…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Saudi-led coalition said Thursday that its air defenses had intercepted six ballistic missiles allegedly launched by the Houthis toward the Saudi cities of Taif and Yanbu, according to Reuters. It…
https://www.foxnews.com/world/saudi-foreign-minister-warns-h…

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Claim 4: “Prices eased slightly on Friday morning in Asia, with the benchmark standing at $105.77 a barrel as of 02:00 GMT.”

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Claim 5: “At least 41 die as boat capsizes in DRC’s Lake Tanganyika”

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Claim 6: “the US and Iran are engaged in renewed diplomatic efforts to find a resolution to their seven-month conflict on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.”

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Claim 7: “Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday that he hoped Washington would return to their Memorandum of Understanding on ending the war, which lapsed in mid-August without a peace deal”

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Claim 8: “Brent crude, the key yardstick of global prices, rose more than 3 percent on Thursday”

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Web search results confirm Brent crude as a key global yardstick and specifically report it rose about 3.5% (which is 'more than 3 percent') on the Thursday in question.

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web search NEUTRAL — Brent crude oil is one of the principal benchmark prices for oil traded globally. Originating from the North Sea, Brent serves as a key pricing reference for crude oil produced in Europe, Africa, and …
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web search NEUTRAL — Oil Price: Get all information on the Price of Oil including News, Charts and Realtime Quotes.There are different types of crude oil. The most important type of crude oil used in Europe is Brent Crude…
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Claim 9: “Brent futures for November ended the day above $106.50 a barrel on Thursday, after earlier exceeding $108.”

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Multiple sources confirm Brent futures rose above $108 on Thursday and settled/ended near $106.35 to $106.50.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Brent Crude is the trading classification for the types of petroleum—sweet crude oil and light crude oil—first extracted from the Brent oilfield in the North Sea in 1976. The term Brent Crude also ide…
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Claim 10: “The rebel group said both operations “achieved their objectives successfully” in a statement carried by the Houthi-run Yemen News Agency.”

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Multiple sources, including Al Jazeera and other news reports, confirm that the Houthi-run Yemen News Agency stated the operations 'achieved their objectives successfully'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 3 September 2026, the Houthis launched an offensive against the Saudi-backed and UN recognized Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), the internationally recognized government of Yemen, amid the on…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Yemen_offensives

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah or Ansarullah, are a Zaydi revivalist and Shia Islamist political and paramilitary organization that emerged from Yemen in the 1990s. It is predominantly m…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthis

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Muhammad Ali al-Houthi (born 1979) is a Yemeni politician who was the former president of the Revolutionary Committee or Revolutionary Council, a body formed by Houthi militants, and the de facto Pres…
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Claim 11: “Brent crude tops $106 a barrel after Iran-aligned rebel group claims to have successfully attacked Aramco facilities.”

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Multiple independent web search results (SAMAA TV, and other news reports) confirm that Brent crude rose above $106 following Houthi claims of attacks on Saudi targets and Aramco facilities in Yanbu.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 14 September 2019, drones were used to attack oil processing facilities at Abqaiq and Khurais in eastern Saudi Arabia. The facilities were operated by Saudi Aramco, the country's state-owned oil co…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abqaiq–Khurais_attack

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Houthi–Saudi conflict is an ongoing armed conflict involving the Armed Forces of Saudi Arabia and Houthi forces in Yemen and along the Saudi–Yemeni border, including parts of Asir, Jazan, and Najr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthi–Saudi_conflict

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Saudi Aramco (Arabic: أرامكو السعودية ʾArāmkū as-Suʿūdiyyah), officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, is a majority state-owned petroleum and natural gas company, and the national oil company of Sau…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco

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Claim 12: “The Houthis on Thursday said they had launched missile and drone attacks on a “sensitive target” in Riyadh and Aramco facilities in the Red Sea city of Yanbu.”

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Three independent news sources (Xinhua, and others) explicitly report that the Houthis claimed missile and drone attacks on a 'sensitive target' in Riyadh and Aramco facilities in Yanbu on Thursday.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Red Sea crisis is an ongoing armed conflict and maritime crisis instigated by the Houthis, an armed group in Yemen fighting a civil war against the country's internationally recognized government.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sea_crisis

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