Houthis keep striking Riyadh

Saudi Arabia was forced to extend the suspension of all flights to and from its main international airport in Riyadh on Monday after a further round of Houthi missile attacks caused more damage and left one dead.
The Saudi authorities said it faced a new barrage of incoming fire on Monday and that Riyadh airport would remain shut for now.
Incoming drones and missiles were reported by the Saudi-led coalition backing government forces in Yemen, though there was no immediate news of whether they were intercepted.
The Houthis have been attacking Saudi airports and oil facilities since last week as part of a rapidly escalating conflict that has spilled over from the wider regional conflagration between the United States and Iran.
Those attacks have shut down parts of Saudi airspace, suspending operations at Riyadh airport, and largely emptying the skies over the capital even as the city hosts a major energy conference.
Saudi Arabia now faces a nightmare predicament, having re-entered Yemen's civil war to push the Houthis from the vital Bab el-Mandeb Strait oil route and stop the group making further gains after its sudden advances in September.
Saudi Arabia's long-time regional rival Iran offered to mediate between its Houthi allies and the kingdom. "We have repeatedly expressed our readiness to help facilitate dialogue between the parties," foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday.
Meanwhile, despite intensified Saudi airstrikes against the group, including what Yemeni television said were hits on al-Jawf province on Monday, the Houthis show no sign of letting up their own barrage of attacks on Saudi infrastructure.

Yemen’s Houthi-run health ministry on Monday said airstrikes on a government complex and a house in the northern province of al-Jawf killed nine people, including five children and a woman, and wounded seven others, according to the Houthi-controlled SABA news agency.
Inside Yemen, fighting continued in and around Taiz, the third city, and the most populous governorate, with Saudi planes mounting eight separate strikes on any assembly of Houthi forces. As many as 60 fighters died on Sunday from both sides.
The Saudis were looking to the US to become more directly involved in their fight against the Houthis. The US has provided intelligence sharing, target identification and planning for a Saudi-led offensive, but so far has held off on directly carrying out strikes against the Houthis.
A US intervention could prompt the Houthis to try to halt shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait at the southern end of the Red Sea off Yemen, restricting the flow of oil out of the Persian Gulf.
Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said at Monday's conference that the kingdom would stay focused on bringing in investment as part of its wider economic development goals.
"The development of our energy system and industrial capability continues," he said.
Saudi Arabia's neighbour the United Arab Emirates on Monday called for a revival of joint Gulf action on security and defence in response to the attacks. 
On the other hand, Iran was still reviewing a US response to its proposal regarding the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and will reply to Washington via intermediaries when the review is over, foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday.