SAUDI PIPELINES HIT BY DRONES

Drone attacks claimed by Iran-aligned Yemen rebels shut down one of Saudi Arabia’s major oil pipelines on Tuesday, further ratcheting up Gulf tensions after the mysterious sabotage of several tankers. Two pumping stations had been targeted early Tuesday on the East West Pipeline, able to pump five million barrels of oil a day from the oil-rich eastern province to a Red Sea export terminal. Yemen’s Huthi rebels said they had targeted vital installations in Saudi Arabia.

‘No major damage seen on sabotaged ships’

Satellite images obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday showed no major visible damage to the four oil tankers anchored in the Mideast that were damaged by what Gulf officials described as sabotage. Details of the alleged sabotage to two Saudi, one Norwegian and one

Emirati oil tanker remained unclear. US national security agencies believe proxies sympathetic to or working for Iran may have attacked the tankers off the United Arab Emirates rather than Iranian forces themselves, a US official said. AGENCIES