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3 Women Injured from Houthi Projectile Shrapnel in Saudi Arabia’s Jazan

File photo of shrapnel from a Houthi projectile. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
File photo of shrapnel from a Houthi projectile. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
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3 Women Injured from Houthi Projectile Shrapnel in Saudi Arabia’s Jazan

File photo of shrapnel from a Houthi projectile. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
File photo of shrapnel from a Houthi projectile. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

The Saudi Civil Defense announced on Tuesday that three women were injured from shrapnel from a projectile fired by the Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen towards the Kingdom.

Civil Defense spokesman in the southwestern Jazan region, Mohammed al-Ghamdi said the Houthis had fired a projectile towards Saudi border villages.

The ensuing shrapnel damaged a house and slightly wounded three women. They have since been transferred to hospital and they are in stable condition, he added.

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Syria’s Leader Meets with Bahraini Diplomatic Delegation

The leader of Syria's new administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa meets Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdul Latif Al-Zayani in Damascus, Syria, January 8, 2025. (Bahrain News Agency/Handout via Reuters)
The leader of Syria's new administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa meets Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdul Latif Al-Zayani in Damascus, Syria, January 8, 2025. (Bahrain News Agency/Handout via Reuters)
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Syria’s Leader Meets with Bahraini Diplomatic Delegation

The leader of Syria's new administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa meets Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdul Latif Al-Zayani in Damascus, Syria, January 8, 2025. (Bahrain News Agency/Handout via Reuters)
The leader of Syria's new administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa meets Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdul Latif Al-Zayani in Damascus, Syria, January 8, 2025. (Bahrain News Agency/Handout via Reuters)

Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa received a delegation from Bahrain on Wednesday and met with the Bahraini foreign minister, state media reported.

The visit was the latest in a flurry of diplomatic overtures by Arab countries to Syria’s new leaders after they overthrew former President Bashar al-Assad in a lightning rebel offensive.

Like other Gulf countries, Bahrain had cut off diplomatic ties with Syria under Assad’s rule during the Syrian civil war, but it reopened its embassy in Damascus in 2018 and gradually restored ties with the Assad government.

Bahrain is the current head of the Arab summit, and days after Assad’s ouster it had sent a message to al-Sharaa offering its cooperation with the new authorities and saying, “We look forward to Syria regaining its authentic role in the Arab League.”