{"id":24528,"date":"2026-10-22T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/22\/drone-attack-saudi-arabia-king-fahd-airport-dammam-flight-disruptions\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T11:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:00:15","slug":"drone-attack-saudi-arabia-king-fahd-airport-dammam-flight-disruptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/22\/drone-attack-saudi-arabia-king-fahd-airport-dammam-flight-disruptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone Attack Hits Saudi Arabia&#8217;s King Fahd Airport in Dammam, Flight Disruptions Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s General Authority of Civil Aviation said on Wednesday evening that King Fahd International Airport in the city of Dammam was targeted in an attack that killed one person and injured eight others. Material damage was also caused to the airport, the extent of which is still being assessed.<\/p>\n<p>Turki al-Maliki, spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, confirmed the drone attack on Saudi Arabia&#8217;s eastern region and said four drones were intercepted and destroyed in the area.<\/p>\n<p>According to data from FlightRadar, disruption to air traffic at Dammam&#8217;s King Fahd Airport is still continuing, with some planes remaining in the sky for more than an hour without being able to land at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes as drone attacks on vital infrastructure in Saudi Arabia have recently increased, bringing significant security and economic consequences for the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drone attack hits Saudi Arabia&#8217;s King Fahd Airport in Dammam, killing one and injuring eight, with flight disruptions continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international","category-secondary-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24528","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=24528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}