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“Saudi Arabia has sought help from the United States and countries in Europe and the Middle East for both defensive and offensive support, in a renewed war against the Houthis in Yemen.”

“Taiz city has been bitterly contested throughout Yemen’s civil war.”

“Ahmed Nagi, a senior analyst on Yemen at the International Crisis Group, said Moscow reportedly supporting Tehran’s allies like the Houthis is particularly significant because it would mean a shift in the trajectory of the Yemeni conflict.”

“The attacks mark one of the most significant disruptions to Saudi civil aviation in years and the deadliest assault on Saudi soil in more than a decade, as Yemeni government forces are also targeting airfields in Houthi-controlled territory.”

“It came as the war in Yemen intensifies, with the Houthis battling forces aligned with the internationally recognised government for control of the country.”

“The conflict, which was frozen for some years until it was brought back to life by the United States’ war on Iran, has stoked further upheaval in a region already destabilised by Israel’s wars on Gaza and Lebanon.”

“If attacks on Saudi cities, civilians and energy infrastructure continue, Riyadh will increasingly regard the issue not as intervention in the Yemeni civil war but as the defence of Saudi territory.”

“Yemen’s more than a decade-long civil war has flared up once again after the Houthi rebel group launched an offensive in several locations against Saudi Arabian-backed government forces.”

“This is a civil war inside Yemen, and it affects us as one of the parties.”

“The latest attacks come as Yemen’s war, largely frozen under a 2022 truce, has reignited and become another front in the wider regional conflict involving Iran.”

“Mawry said, adding that fears are now growing inside the country of “an all-out civil war” that could potentially drag in other regional powers besides Saudi Arabia.”

“That war has reignited the conflict in Yemen.”

“Fighting has intensified in Yemen’s Taiz province between forces loyal to the country’s internationally recognised government and the Houthis, as the United Nations warns that thousands of civilians are being uprooted.”

“The civil war has escalated sharply since the Houthis, an armed group also known as Ansar Allah (Arabic for Supporters of God), seized strategic territory from forces loyal to the government along the Red Sea coast last month.”

“Al Jazeera’s Mawry said Saudi Arabia “has much more to lose” from tit-for-tat attacks disrupting air traffic, as Sanaa international airport has been closed for many years due to the damage it has sustained over the years of civil war.”

“United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg says that the country has slid back into “full-scale war” as fighting between the Houthis and internationally recognised government forces continues.”

“…osed to it, as in 2019 when they took to the streets of Beirut to beat back protesters calling for political reform of the country’s sectarian system, in which Hezbollah has become a key player in the years since the end of Lebanon’s 15-year civil war in…”

“Yemen’s civil war between the Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces and Iran-backed Houthis has intensified this year after it had largely been frozen in a 2022 truce.”

“At least one person – a Yemeni resident in Saudi Arabia – was killed, and two others were injured after a Houthi drone was intercepted in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern governorate of Taif on Thursday, according to the kingdom’s civil defence agency.”

“In the 1960s, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser sent tens of thousands of Egyptian soldiers to participate in the North Yemen Civil War, a long and costly endeavour that yielded few results and many casualties.”

“More than 4.5 million people have been displaced since the Saudi-led coalition intervened in Yemen’s civil war in 2015.”

“Already war-torn and under blockade for more than a decade, Yemen risks descending into another civil war.”

““We know very well that continued war between Islamic countries in the region only has one winner, and that winner is no one but the Zionist regime, which is after persisting tensions and conflict in our region and between Islamic countries,””

“Yemen’s more than a decade-long civil war has flared up once again after the Houthi armed group launched an offensive in several locations against Saudi-backed government forces earlier this month.”