ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - US President Donald Turmp on Saturday said the US may join Saudi Arabia in its war against Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis, following another attack on Riyadh’s international airport earlier in the day.

Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation authority on Saturday said in a statement that an attack on the King Khalid International Airport resulted in “a number of injuries.”

Speaking to reporters, Trump was asked about the airport attack and whether the US would join Saudi Arabia in military action against the Houthis.

“We may. We're going to look at it. We just found out about the recent attack. We will make a decision. We move very quickly,” the US president said.

The remarks come as the Houthis have ramped up strikes deep inside Saudi territory, targeting energy and civilian infrastructure.

On Friday, Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority announced three Saudi citizens were killed and several more wounded in strikes on Riyadh's airport the day prior.

The authority said in a statement that two separate attacks took place, one that targeted the airport's facilities and another that struck a commercial plane belonging to Saudia, the country’s national flag carrier.

The conflict between Riyadh and the Houthis had lain largely dormant since a UN-brokered ceasefire in 2022. However, the latter group blamed Saudi Arabia for an airstrike on Sanaa International Airport in July, setting in motion a chain of events that culminated in a large-scale Houthi offensive that expanded their effective control over war-wracked Yemen.

The long-range Houthi strikes come amid a counter-offensive launched by the Saudi-backed Yemeni government, seeking to dislodge the rebels from the coastline along the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, from where they have sought to impose a maritime blockade on Saudi maritime traffic through the Red Sea.

Despite Yemeni government claims that they have displaced the Houthis from the city of Mokha, the Iran-backed rebels have insisted that they are holding onto the territory they have seized.