前美国也门问题特别顾问蒂姆·伦德金在利雅得机场遭遇20次袭击造成17人死亡后，称胡塞武装是“明确且切实存在的危险”
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福克斯新闻首席外交通讯员特雷·英格斯在《新闻特写》栏目中报道了有关伊朗支持的胡塞武装正利用中国零件研发先进导弹的说法，并探讨了该组织对沙特阿拉伯及整个中东地区稳定的潜在威胁。
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一名前美国特使周四警告称，胡塞武装正越来越不受德黑兰的管控，在这个恐怖组织重新武装并强化打击能力之际，他们在国际舞台上构成了“明确且切实存在的危险”。
这一警告发出之际，沙特阿拉伯近期遭遇了致命的导弹和无人机袭击，且在该事件发生前，全球航运航线和中东关键基础设施就已面临越来越多的威胁。
沙特领导的也门联军发言人图尔基·马利基周四也证实，10月7日至11日期间，胡塞武装对利雅得的哈立德国王国际机场发动的袭击造成17人死亡，333人受伤。
在利雅得举行的新闻发布会上，马利基表示，10月10日的袭击涉及10架无人机、导弹和其他投射物。
“自10月1日以来，哈立德国王国际机场已遭受20次袭击，”他指出。
曾于2021年至2025年担任美国也门问题特使、2013年至2016年派驻沙特阿拉伯的蒂姆·伦德金表示，沙特官员十多年前就曾警告称，胡塞武装将成为重大威胁，他称这一预测如今已成为现实。
沙特外交大臣警告胡塞威胁已全球化，特朗普暂未出手
这名前美国特使警告称，胡塞武装正越来越不受德黑兰的管控，在这个恐怖组织重新武装并强化打击能力之际，他们在国际舞台上构成了“明确且切实存在的危险”。（胡塞媒体中心通过盖蒂图片社提供）
“沙特方面曾非常明确地向我们的领导人表明，他们将胡塞武装视为重大威胁，”伦德金在谈及自己十年前在沙特的任职经历时说道。
他表示，当时该组织“正悄悄提升自身能力，美化其为何要以救世主团体的身份领导也门的叙事，这个团体来自也门北部，有自己的议程和使命”。
胡塞武装于20世纪90年代在也门作为宗教和政治运动兴起，但在2014年伊朗在也门内战期间扩大援助和训练力度后，双方的关系发展为军事伙伴关系。
“胡塞武装实际上已经不再需要伊朗了，”伦德金继续说道，他曾担任美国国务院近东事务代理助理国务卿，他补充称，伊朗与胡塞的关系仍然“是一个非常重要的关系，让胡塞武装得以成为如今这样一股强大的力量”。
目前担任中东研究所（MEI）杰出外交研究员的伦德金表示，随着时间的推移，胡塞武装已发展出自己的“本土自主能力”，并利用了海湾地区的各种分裂局面。
周六针对利雅得哈立德国王国际机场的导弹和无人机袭击引发了人们的担忧，即随着沙特阿拉伯寻求美国的援助，唐纳德·特朗普总统可能会被拖入更广泛的地区冲突。
当被问及美国是否会保卫沙特阿拉伯免受进一步袭击时，特朗普表示：“你很快就会知道的。”
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2026年10月8日，沙特阿拉伯利雅得，也门伊朗支持的胡塞武装称袭击了机场后，哈立德国王国际机场升起浓烟和火焰。（路透社）
在中东研究所的一次简报会上，伦德金表示，胡塞武装的精密武器和瞄准能力已将该组织从一场地区叛乱转变为国际安全威胁。
“他们有能力袭击该地区各地，包括红海北部区域。所以这是一个地区性问题，而考虑到胡塞武装控制着也门西海岸，”伦德金说道。
“现在这已经是一个国际性问题了。”
伦德金以利雅得机场袭击的精准度作为证据，表明与加沙冲突期间的早期袭击相比，胡塞武装的能力不断提升。
“他们的打击精度更高了。如今，他们能精准袭击利雅得机场的四号航站楼。这是一个明确且切实存在的危险，”他说道。
据美联社援引地区官员的消息报道，胡塞武装发动了多架无人机，随后发射了巡航导弹和弹道导弹，飞行距离超过620英里抵达利雅得，这促使人们对沙特防空系统可能存在的漏洞展开调查。
沙特军队周一拦截了另外两枚 targeting 利雅得的弹道导弹。据路透社报道，周二，胡塞武装的一次袭击导致沙特阿美公司位于达兰的总部受损，引发的火势蔓延至多个楼层。
伦德金表示，胡塞武装已建立了广泛的武器供应链、走私网络和国内融资渠道，使他们能够在不完全依赖德黑兰的情况下持续发动袭击。
前五角大楼官员警告：胡塞武装夺取红海“咽喉”后已进入美国“击杀框”
2026年4月10日，也门萨那，胡塞武装支持者举行声援伊朗的示威活动，当时美伊之间停火已持续两周。（哈立德·阿卜杜拉/路透社）
“他们通过互联网、商业交易从公开市场获取大量补给。他们拥有一个非常完善的走私网络，从大船转运到小船，再到小艇，再通过驮畜、人肉运输。”
“他们能够在不受政府管控的地区 undetected 地运送物资，甚至穿越多个边境，那里有大量开阔地带。他们一直在不停地移动、制造、补给、补货、创新。”
该组织的自给自足能力还体现在融资方面。伦德金表示，胡塞武装通过黑市石油销售、征税和敲诈勒索获取收入，同时还强迫家庭提供新兵，这使得该组织即使切断伊朗援助也能继续作战。
“多年来他们一直得到伊朗的支持，所以他们在银行里有资金，”伦德金说道。
“他们过去依赖黑市石油销售。他们敲诈也门的运输公司和企业。他们对控制地区的民众征税。他们强迫许多家庭送出儿子到前线作战。”
胡塞武装不断扩大的武器库引发了人们对中国可能参与其武器供应网络的担忧。
伊朗支持的袭击破坏霍尔木兹海峡逃生路线，石油紧缩形势加剧
曾于2021年至2025年担任美国也门问题特使、2013年至2016年派驻沙特阿拉伯的蒂姆·伦德金表示，沙特官员十多年前就曾警告称，胡塞武装将成为重大威胁，他称这一预测如今已成为现实。（胡塞媒体中心通过盖蒂图片社提供）
也门政府指责该反政府武装寻求获取用于中程弹道导弹的中国零部件，引发了人们对该组织获取先进军事技术途径的担忧。
“这里存在一个非常有害的中国关联，”伦德金警告称，并补充称，离岸公司帮助该组织通过商业渠道获取武器。
伦德金警告称，胡塞武装还可能袭击沙特的能源设施、管道和海水淡化厂，这些基础设施对沙特的经济和供水至关重要。
“胡塞武装已经袭击过管道，”他说道。“他们的目标包括柴油发电厂和其他能源基础设施。”
袭击此类设施可能会扰乱全球能源市场、海上贸易和地区稳定。
胡塞武装还控制着也门沿红海的西海岸，这是连接欧洲和亚洲的重要航运通道。
鉴于该叛乱组织如今有能力袭击数百英里外的目标，伦德金警告称，威胁已远远超出也门边境。
“利雅得机场的一次爆炸就是一个巨大的信号，”这位专家说道。
“这就是我为什么反复强调这是一场国际冲突，”他说道，并补充称“需要立即采取行动”。
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Houthis emerge as global threat beyond Iran control amid Saudi strikes, former envoy warns
Former US special envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking calls Houthis ‘a clear and very present danger’ after 20 attacks on Riyadh airport leave 17 dead
October 15, 2026 6:25pm EDT / Fox News
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The Houthis are increasingly operating independently of Tehran, posing a “clear and very present danger” on the international stage as the terror group rearms and sharpens its strike capabilities, a former U.S. envoy warned Thursday.
The warning came amid deadly missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia in recent days and growing threats to global shipping routes and critical Middle East infrastructure in the run-up.
Turki al-Maliki, spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, also confirmed Thursday that Houthi attacks on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh had killed 17 and injured 333 others from Oct. 7-11.
Speaking at a news conference in Riyadh, al-Maliki said the Oct. 10 attack involved 10 drones, missiles and other projectiles.
“King Khalid International Airport has been subjected to 20 attacks since (Oct. 1),” he noted.
Tim Lenderking, who served as U.S. special envoy for Yemen from 2021 to 2025 and was posted to Saudi Arabia from 2013 to 2016, said Saudi officials had warned more than a decade ago that the Houthis would become a major threat, a prediction he says has now materialized.
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The Houthis are increasingly operating independently of Tehran, posing a “clear and very present danger” on the international stage as the terror group rearms and sharpens its strike capabilities, a former U.S. envoy warned.(Handout from Houthi Media Center via Getty Images)
“The Saudis were very clear to our leaders that they viewed the Houthis as a major threat,” Lenderking said of his time in the kingdom a decade ago.
At the time, he said, the group was “quietly building up their capability, burnishing their narrative of why they sought to lead Yemen as a messianic group, as a group from northern Yemen, with an agenda, with a mission.”
The Houthis had emerged as a religious and political movement in Yemen in the 1990s, but their ties to Iran developed into a military partnership after 2014, when Tehran expanded its assistance and training during Yemen’s civil war.
“The Houthis don’t really need the Iranians anymore,” Lenderking, a former acting assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs at the U.S. State Department, continued, adding it was still “a very important relationship that “enabled the Houthis to become the powerful force that they are.”
Lenderking, now a distinguished diplomatic fellow at the Middle East Institute (MEI), said, over time, the Houthis had developed their own “homegrown indigenous capability” as they capitalized on any disunity across the Gulf region.
Saturday’s missile and drone attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh raised concerns that President Donald Trump could be drawn into a broader regional conflict as Saudi Arabia seeks U.S. assistance.
Asked whether the U.S. would defend Saudi Arabia against further attacks, Trump said, “You’ll find out soon.”
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Smoke and flames rise from King Khalid International Airport after Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis said they attacked the airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 8, 2026.(Reuters)
Speaking at an MEI briefing, Lenderking said the Houthis’ sophisticated weapons and targeting capabilities have transformed the group from a regional insurgency into an international security threat.
“They have the capability to hit around the region, including up into the northern reaches of the Red Sea. So, this is a regional problem, and given the fact that the Houthis control the west coast of Yemen,” Lenderking said.
“It’s an international problem now.”
Lenderking cited the precision of the Riyadh airport attack as evidence of the Houthis’ growing capabilities compared with earlier strikes during the Gaza conflict.
“They can hit things better. Now, they are hitting Terminal Four of Riyadh Airport, very specifically. It’s a clear and very present danger,” he said.
The Houthis reportedly launched multiple drones followed by cruise and ballistic missiles that traveled more than 620 miles to Riyadh, prompting an investigation into possible Saudi air defense failures, according to The Associated Press, citing regional officials.
Saudi forces intercepted two more ballistic missiles targeting Riyadh on Monday. On Tuesday, a Houthi strike caused damage to Aramco’s headquarters in Dhahran, sparking a fire that spread across several floors, Reuters reported.
Lenderking said the Houthis have built extensive weapons supply chains, smuggling networks and domestic financing operations that allow them to sustain attacks without relying solely on Tehran.
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Houthi supporters demonstrate in solidarity with Iran, amid a two-week ceasefire between U.S. and Iran, in Sanaa, Yemen, April 10, 2026.(Khaled Abdullah/Reuters)
“They get a lot of supplies off the open market through the internet, through commercial exchanges. They have a very well entrenched smuggling network, from big boats onto small boats, onto tiny boats, on the pack animals, on people’s backs.
“They are able to move things undetected through government terrain, even through various borders and with a lot of wide open space there. They are constantly moving, building, resupplying, restocking, innovating.”
The group’s self-sufficiency also extends to financing. Lenderking said the Houthis generate revenue through black-market oil sales, taxation and extortion while also forcing families to provide recruits, allowing the group to continue fighting even if Iranian assistance is cut off.
“They have had support from Iran over the years, so they have money in the bank from that,” Lenderking said.
“They relied on sales of black market oil in the past. They extort Yemeni transport companies, businesses. They tax people in areas that they control. They force many families to offer up a son to fight on the front lines.”
The Houthis’ expanding arsenal has raised concerns about potential Chinese involvement in their weapons supply networks.
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Tim Lenderking, who served as U.S. special envoy for Yemen from 2021 to 2025 and was posted to Saudi Arabia from 2013 to 2016, said Saudi officials had warned more than a decade ago that the Houthis would become a major threat, a prediction he says has now materialized.(Houthi Media Center via Getty Images)
Yemen’s government has accused the rebels of seeking Chinese components for medium-range ballistic missiles, raising concerns about the group’s access to advanced military technology.
“There is a Chinese connection here that’s very detrimental,” Lenderking warned, adding that front companies have helped the group obtain weapons through commercial channels.
Lenderking warned that the Houthis could also target Saudi energy facilities, pipelines and desalination plants, infrastructure critical to the kingdom’s economy and water supply.
“The Houthis have hit pipelines,” he said. “They have diesel plants and other energy infrastructure in their sights.”
Attacks on such facilities could disrupt global energy markets, maritime commerce and regional stability.
The Houthis also control Yemen’s western coastline along the Red Sea, a vital shipping corridor connecting Europe and Asia.
With the rebels now capable of striking targets hundreds of miles away, Lenderking warned that the threat extends far beyond Yemen’s borders.
“One blast at Riyadh Airport is a huge statement,” the expert said.
“That’s why I come back to the fact that this is an international conflict,” he said, adding that “immediate action is required.”
Emma Bussey is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital. Before joining Fox, she worked at The Telegraph with the U.S. overnight team, across desks including foreign, politics, news, sport and culture.
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