{"id":23754,"date":"2026-10-11T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/11\/saudi-coalition-riyadh-airport-fire-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T17:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T17:00:22","slug":"saudi-coalition-riyadh-airport-fire-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/11\/saudi-coalition-riyadh-airport-fire-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi-led coalition says fire breaks out at Riyadh airport terminal after attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spokesman for the Saudi-led military coalition has confirmed that King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh was targeted in an attack, after which fire broke out at passenger terminal 4.<\/p>\n<p>According to Al Jazeera, the coalition official said an &#8220;unidentified projectile&#8221; hit Terminal 4 and a fire broke out afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>He also claimed that air defences intercepted and destroyed a cruise missile near King Khalid International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Anadolu Agency also reported that, according to official Saudi figures, the airport has been targeted five times since last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as the spokesman for Yemen&#8217;s armed forces announced that at 7 p.m. local time tonight (7:30 p.m. Tehran time) a video statement will be released on &#8220;several unprecedented military operations&#8221; deep inside Saudi Arabia and several other operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi coalition says an attack caused a fire at Riyadh\u2019s King Khalid Airport terminal, while Yemen announces new military operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}