Saudi-Houthi conflict LIVE updates: The US has warned Americans to ‘reconsider travel’ to Saudi Arabia. Houthi attacks on Saudi targets have intensified, while Riyadh has stepped up strikes against the rebel group in Yemen.

The US has kept Saudi Arabia under a Level 3 travel warning as Iranian and Houthi drone and missile threats raise fresh security concerns across the region.

Yemen’s Houthis are claiming to have shot down a Saudi Arabian F-15 (SA) fighter jet, using locally made weapons. If true, this would be the fifth F-15 shot down this year, in the ongoing Middle East conflict.

The two sides traded accusations of attacks as fighting inside Yemen remains fierce. The escalating conflict threatens to further destabilize the Middle East.

Saudi Arabia is running out of work-arounds to keep its oil flowing, with Iran-backed Houthi rebels threatening its exports via the Red Sea.

Saudi Arabia intercepts a Houthi drone near Mecca as fighting expands across Yemen, Iran and the Gulf, raising fresh security and oil concerns.

Saudi airstrikes in Yemen's southwestern Taiz province killed three civilians, including two children, according to Anees al-Asbahi, spokesman for the Health Ministry within the Ansar Allah-led Yemeni government.

Regional diplomacy over the Strait of Hormuz has hit a pause after Oman postponed a planned meeting between Iran and Gulf states in the “interests of consensus”. Tehran says the decision was taken jointly with Muscat at the request of some regional countries.