The Saudi-led coalition confirmed that the Houthis fired a ballistic missile at Riyadh at dawn on Saturday, the first attack on the capital in the renewed fighting. The coalition said the missile was intercepted and destroyed, and that attempts on Bisha, Taif, Farasan and Yanbu were thwarted by air defences. Residents heard explosions; civil defence issued early-warning alerts across the capital, gave the all-clear, and then reported a large plume of black smoke and flames near King Khalid International Airport. An Aramco fuel tank at the airport’s depot burned until firefighters extinguished it. FlightRadar24 logged cancellations and delays. No casualties were reported. The Houthis said they had struck "sensitive sites" in the capital and Aramco facilities at Yanbu, and would continue until Saudi Arabia ends its blockade of Yemen.

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The official account and the visible one do not fully meet. The coalition says the missile was destroyed; a fuel tank at the airport nonetheless caught fire, and Reuters imagery showed the smoke column rising behind the terminal and the airport highway. Interceptor debris, a second projectile, or a fragment of the destroyed missile would each explain it; Riyadh has not said which. The Houthis for their part claimed massive fires at Yanbu without producing evidence, and Aramco did not comment. This tracker records a missile at Riyadh, an interception claimed, a fire confirmed, and the cause of the fire unstated.

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The sequence since the Houthi campaign resumed: Jizan, Abha and Khamis Mushait on Day 193; Jeddah on Day 194; Taif on Day 199; a drone toward Mecca on Day 201; Riyadh on Day 204. Each step has been roughly a hundred to three hundred kilometres deeper into the kingdom, and the last two have targeted the holy city and the capital. Saudi Arabia has declined to retaliate against Iraq, asked Turkey, Pakistan and Egypt for backing, and been told by Washington that it is talking to the Houthis. Interceptor inventories, per the CBO, are half to two-thirds spent.

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Ali Akbar Rezaei said Iran had conveyed its conditions for halting the war to Washington through the Qatari mediator, that consultations continued with Pakistan, and that "we are awaiting President Trump’s response to these terms." The conditions are an end to the fighting on all fronts, the unfreezing of Iranian funds, and an end to the US naval blockade. None is new — each has been stated since the summer — but the transmission is. On Day 202 Trump said Iran was not ready; on Day 204 Iran sent a written price and said it was waiting for him. The two statements are not compatible, and the visa for Pezeshkian to be in New York from September 22 is the venue in which one of them will be tested.

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The State Department advised Americans to seriously reconsider travel to and through the Middle East, citing Houthi hostilities against Saudi Arabia including civilian airports, and warning that "this military conflict has the potential to escalate rapidly." Haaretz reported the US cost of the war at $43.6 billion as munition spending soars — the interceptor problem stated in dollars. Pakistan pressed Iran over energy supplies. In Gaza, six were killed in Israeli strikes including a ten-year-old girl.

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Tracker status holds at WAR RESUMED. Day 204 is the day the Houthi front reached the seat of Saudi government and the diplomatic front acquired a document. A missile at Riyadh, intercepted by the official account and followed by a fire at the airport, is the furthest the Yemen war has travelled into the kingdom since 2019, and it lands on a monarchy that has asked four allies for help and struck back only at Yemen. Tehran’s three conditions are old; sending them and announcing the wait is new. The American president says Iran is not ready. The Iranian president arrives in New York in three days.