Saudi energy minister says attacks testing infrastructure, vows 'serious' response

Saudi Arabia's energy minister acknowledged on Monday that the kingdom's infrastructure and resilience had been tested, as he vowed a firm response following a wave of deadly attacks by Yemen's Houthis. The Houthi attacks over the weekend marked a sharp escalation in the Yemen war. On Sunday, a strike hit Riyadh's international airport, killing one person, just hours after another Houthi-claimed attack on the site killed 13 people and left hundreds of others wounded, forcing authorities to suspend operations there Speaking at a conference in Riyadh, the country's Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said the attacks, the deadliest to have hit the kingdom in a decade, have "tested our infrastructure, our institutions, our people, and our resilience. They have also tested decisions made long before present crises, because resilience is built before crises begin". "Energy security can't be taken for granted," he added. "The events of recent weeks are serious, our response must be equally serious." Reporting by AFP