Air raid sirens sound in Riyadh, Saudi capital

A public air raid warning over Riyadh is notable less for what is confirmed than for what is not: no stated cause, no damage assessment, no casualty figures. For Gulf markets, the immediate relevance is the reminder that the kingdom's capital had, until now, been largely insulated from the kind of public alert common elsewhere in the region. Whether this remains an isolated incident or signals a shift in the threat picture is the open question, and clarity on the trigger will matter more than the sirens themselves.