{"id":502702,"date":"2026-03-22T08:33:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/saudi-arabia-reports-the-destruction-of-drones-and-missiles-launched-against-the-eastern-region-and-riyadh\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T08:33:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:33:48","slug":"saudi-arabia-reports-the-destruction-of-drones-and-missiles-launched-against-the-eastern-region-and-riyadh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/saudi-arabia-reports-the-destruction-of-drones-and-missiles-launched-against-the-eastern-region-and-riyadh\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia reports the destruction of drones and missiles launched against the eastern region and Riyadh"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>International Writing.-<\/strong> The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Defense reported the successful interception and destruction of drones and a missile this Sunday &#8220;without any damage or casualties being reported in the Eastern region.&#8221;\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a first statement on its X account, the ministry reported that its defense systems had &#8220;intercepted and shot down five drones over the Eastern Province in the last hour.&#8221; This was followed by a statement about the attack of &#8220;three ballistic missiles against its capital, of which one was intercepted, while the others fell in an uninhabited area.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\nAnd finally, a new statement where he affirmed that &#8220;he intercepted and shot down four other drones over the Eastern Province, hours after the attack on Riyadh.&#8221;\n\nThis series of attacks is part of several similar ones so far in March \u00abwith more than 60 drones shot down\u00bb, linked to tensions with the Houthis in Yemen, according to the ministry&#8217;s statements on X.\n\nSince Saturday, the eastern province has received air strikes against energy facilities &#8220;with at least dozens of drones shot down in the last hours&#8221; expressed the official source.\n\nWe recommend reading:\n\nThe attacks occur amidst the war that the United States and Israel are waging against Iran since February 28, when the country&#8217;s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was assassinated.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Writing.- The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Defense reported the successful interception and destruction of drones and a missile this Sunday &#8220;without any damage or casualties being reported in the Eastern region.&#8221; In a first statement on its X account, the ministry reported that its defense systems had &#8220;intercepted and shot down five drones over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26M6","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yerandi Santana","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-13-at-5.35.07-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}