Saudi Civil Defence issued an all-clear for Riyadh on Sunday, minutes after warning residents of a potential danger and telling them to go to the nearest safe place, Middle East Eye reported, citing the agency¹. Anadolu Agency said the same brief alerts also covered Najran province and were later lifted³.

The General Directorate of Saudi Civil Defense had earlier issued similar all-clear messages for Dammam and the provinces of al-Ahsa and Abqaiq, also minutes after potential-danger warnings, according to Middle East Eye¹. Anadolu Agency and Gulf News described the same Eastern Province sequence, naming Buqayq (Abqaiq), Al Ahsa and Dammam^3,4.

Gulf News said the National Early Warning Platform carried the alerts and that Civil Defence, on X, told people to stay calm, move indoors away from windows, avoid open areas, balconies and rooftops, and, if driving, pull over away from bridges and high-rises⁴. It said residents should call 911 in Riyadh, Makkah, Madinah and the Eastern Province, or 998 elsewhere, and that filming intercepts or impact sites could bring legal liability⁴. The Siasat Daily reported the same shelter steps and said 911 applied in Riyadh and 998 in Najran⁵.

In a public alert quoted by Middle East Eye, the agency said the danger had passed in Riyadh City and told people to keep following Civil Defence instructions, avoid gathering and filming, and call 911 in an emergency¹. Anadolu Agency likewise said Civil Defense later posted that the danger had passed in Riyadh and Najran and told people to follow instructions and avoid gathering and filming³.

The Siasat Daily, citing a Reuters witness, said multiple loud booms were heard in Riyadh shortly after the early-warning alert⁵. Reuters published a separate report under a headline that loud booms were heard in Riyadh after an early warning; the full Reuters article was not available to this desk². Middle East Eye’s readable update did not describe sounds in the capital¹.

Anadolu Agency, in a companion report, said Saudi-led coalition spokesman Maj. Gen. Turki al-Maliki stated that air defenses intercepted two ballistic missiles launched toward Riyadh, hours after an intercept claim for the Eastern Province⁶. The Siasat Daily attributed a similar statement to Brig. Gen. Turki Al-Malki, saying two cruise missiles toward Riyadh and the south and a ballistic missile toward the Eastern Province had been intercepted⁵. Those accounts differ on munition type and count; neither Civil Defence all-clear cited a cause^1,3,4,5,6.

Anadolu Agency placed the alerts in the longer Yemen conflict, in which it said the Houthi group has repeatedly targeted Saudi Arabia with missiles and drones³. What, if any, damage or casualties occurred in Riyadh on Sunday was not established in the sources that could be read^1,2,3,4,5,6.