Several explosions heard in Yemen's capital, Arab sources say

Trump says he spoke with the Saudi crown prince and may ask Turkey to join the response to the Yemen conflict.

Arab sources reported several explosions in Sanaa, Tasnim News said. No group has claimed responsibility and there is no confirmation yet of damage or casualties.

The explosions follow a campaign that escalated sharply this week. On October 13, Saudi forces and a allied coalition issued evacuation warnings and carried out airstrikes inside Sanaa itself, after the conflict had already spread from skirmishes off the coast to direct strikes on Riyadh's airport and on Aramco sites. The pattern through the campaign has been that reported strikes pile up without confirmed damage to Saudi export or loading infrastructure, so the question hanging over Wednesday's reports is whether this episode breaks that pattern or simply extends the claim-and-deny cycle that has run since mid-September.

Trump said he spoke with the Saudi crown prince and may ask Turkey to join the response to the conflict. A Turkish role would mark the first direct American involvement in the Mecca Alliance, a pact among Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey formed to counter Houthi attacks.

Any confirmed hit on Saudi production or loading facilities would matter more now than it would have earlier in the conflict. Aramco's chief executive, Amin Nasser, said on October 5 that onshore commercial oil inventories had dropped well below six billion barrels, calling them the "last available buffer," with most of the remaining oil effectively unavailable to the market, according to The Media Line. Nasser also said nearly three billion barrels of oil supply have been lost since the conflict began, with about one billion barrels drawn from stocks, CNBC reported. Past strikes have not always matched their headlines: a March drone attack on the Ras Tanura refinery was intercepted and caused only minor damage despite a price spike, according to Wikipedia, while a September attack halted crude loadings at Yanbu and kept the East-West pipeline running at reduced volume for weeks, Wikipedia said, citing Reuters. With the buffer already thin, a verified strike on export or loading infrastructure would carry more weight than the unconfirmed reports seen so far.