“A key Saudi Arabian pipeline to the Red Sea was shut down after it was hit with ‘several drones’ launched Thursday from Iraq, the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement early Saturday, as Iranian-backed Houthi fighters claimed major victories in Yemen, expelling Saudi forces from the country’s Red Sea coast,” the Washington Post reports.“The separate attacks posed new challenges to the region’s ability to export oil amid the ongoing U.S. war with Iran, and further unnerved global oil markets.”