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“Al-Jawf has become a new focal point in the conflict between forces aligned with Yemen’s internationally recognised government and the Houthis, highlighting the strategic importance of the northern governorate.”

“Yemen’s internationally recognised government says its forces have recaptured military positions and strategic heights east of al-Hazm, the capital of the northern governorate of al-Jawf, while fighting continues to deepen the humanitarian crisis in the…”

“The Houthis have escalated their attacks on Saudi Arabia, which backs Yemen's government, while the Saudi-led coalition has responded by stepping up strikes on Houthi positions in Yemen.”

“The Iran-aligned Houthis are fighting against Yemen’s internationally recognised government, which is backed by Saudi Arabia.”

“Aden remains vulnerable Aden, Yemen’s second-most important city after the Houthi-held capital, Sanaa, suffered extensive destruction in early 2015 during fierce fighting between the Houthis and their opponents, as well as air strikes by the Saudi-led…”

“It has become the focus of the fighting between the Iran-backed group and forces loyal to Yemen’s internationally recognised government, backed by Saudi Arabia.”

“Hours after the facility was struck on Saturday morning, the Saudi military launched counter-strikes on the Iran-backed group in Yemen.”

“The foes have traded strikes since the Houthis seized all of Yemen’s Red Sea coast and took control of the Bab al-Mandab strait in a lightning offensive last month.”

“Saudi-backed Yemeni army says 700 Houthis killed in 24 hours The Houthis’ claims that the Iran-allied armed group has targeted Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh are “misleading”, according to the Saudi-led coalition supporting Yemen’s internationally recognised…”

“Houthis say they attacked Saudi oil pumping stations, Riyadh airport as fighting intensifies Oct 26 - Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis said on Monday they had attacked Saudi Arabia's East-West crude oil pumping stations and Riyadh airport, as rising hostilities…”

“Log in Saudi Arabia reported that two terminals at its primary airport reopened on Sunday, despite threats from Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis to continue targeting the hub, which they branded a "military target".”

“The conflict has become an increasingly destabilising element in the US-Israeli offensive against Iran, turning US ally Saudi Arabia into a pressure point in the wider war.”

“After the Houthis seized Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, in 2014, the internationally recognised government of Yemen decamped to Aden with the backing of a Saudi-led coalition of Arab countries.”

“The Yemen conflict has become another front in the wider regional war that began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran in February.”

“Saudi Arabia and the internationally recognised government it backs in Yemen have come under sustained Houthi attack of late, shifting the focus of the wider Middle East war that erupted with US-Israeli strikes on Iran in February.”

“Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels have put their growing military capabilities on display in recent weeks, repeatedly striking Saudi Arabia’s main international airport hundreds of miles (kilometers) away and seizing territory inside Yemen near a key shipping…”

“Saudi Arabia stepped up strikes on Yemen’s Houthis after the group hit Riyadh’s airport 20 times this month, killing 17 people and injuring 333.”

“The trigger for their return to hostilities, after a four-year truce, was a Saudi bombardment of the airport at Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, in July, to prevent a Houthi delegation from landing there.”

“…ye and Pakistan are rushing their military chiefs to Riyadh in response to a call from Saudi Arabia for an urgent meeting on implementing their mutual defence agreement, amid the escalating war against the Houthis in Yemen that has spilled over into Saudi…”

“Both of the Saudi allies are heavily involved as mediators seeking to bring an end to the conflicts across the Middle East.”

“Oil prices have jumped following renewed attacks on Saudi Arabia by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, including claimed strikes on facilities belonging to state-run energy giant Aramco.”

“Houthis say they attacked Saudi oil sites, strikes reported on Yemen's Aden Oct 24 - Yemen's Iran-allied Houthis said they launched attacks at Saudi oil facilities and airports on Saturday, and the Saudi-led coalition fighting the group said it downed two…”

“Yemen’s Houthis said on Saturday (October 24, 2026) they attacked the southern city of Aden, the interim seat of the Saudi-backed government, after accusing Riyadh of killing 16 people in strikes on capital Sanaa and a Red Sea port city.”

“• At least 53 killed, 200 wounded in attack on govt forces’ training camp in Shabwa • Egypt delays vote on military support for Saudi Arabia • US embassies urge ‘heightened vigilance’ across region; Riyadh residents get ‘hostile aerial threat’ warning; govt…”

“According to the Houthi-run health ministry in north-western Yemen, a total of 141 people had been killed in Saudi strikes over the past seven weeks.”

“A missile heading towards the Saudi Arabia's Medina region was intercepted and destroyed, Saudi led coalition, which is on war with Houthis in Yemen, claimed on Thursday.”

“Meanwhile, the Saudi-led coalition launched strikes against the Houthi stronghold in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, which the armed group seized in 2014 and has held ever since.”

“Houthis say Saudi strikes on Yemen’s Taiz leave dozens of casualties SANAA, Yemen - Saudi airstrikes on Taiz in south-west Yemen caused dozens of casualties in an area controlled by the Houthis, the Iran-backed group said on Sept 27, as fighting escalated…”

“Saudi Arabia has responded with hundreds of airstrikes, according to the Houthis, who said 27 strikes were carried out across six provinces in the previous 24 hours.”

“Watch: BBC reports from the front-line of an escalating war in Yemen In rare access to Yemen's conflict zone, the BBC has travelled with government forces from Taiz through checkpoints to the line where the Houthi control ends and no man's land begins.”

“The Saudi military has carried out hundreds of air strikes on Houthi positions on the Red Sea coast, while the Houthis have launched drones and missiles at cities and infrastructure in south-western Saudi Arabia.”

“Saleh was interviewed in January, when Bab el-Mandeb was thrust into the power struggle between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the friendly-but-occasionally-fractious backers of Yemen’s internationally recognized government.”

“If the Houthis are treated as exercising Yemen’s governmental authority, their external hostilities may be characterised as those of Yemen itself, strengthening the argument that the relevant conflicts are international and that traditional belligerent…”

“Saudi Arabia has hit back with its own strikes on the group but has failed to stop it from seizing large stretches of territory in Yemen this month.”

“The Houthis, who control the most populous parts of Yemen and much of the north, have been launching attacks against Saudi Arabia since declaring a naval blockade against Riyadh in July, with strikes targeting Saudi vessels in the Red Sea.”

“OF ALL THE WARRING GROUPS in all the various conflicts in the Middle East, the Houthis in Yemen seem to me to be the least well understood relative to their importance, at least based on news reports about them.”

“Saudi Arabia, West Asia's largest economy, has suffered weeks of strikes from the Iran-backed Houthis against oil and civilian sites including Riyadh's international airport.”

“Saudi forces launched deadly airstrikes on Yemen's Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa city and its surrounding governorate on Saturday (October 24, 2026), media associated with the Iran-backed group said, while also reporting around 20 strikes on Mocha.”

“The development of a new multinational “anti-war bloc” represents a challenge to the increasingly open plans by the US and Israel to relaunch strikes on Iran while talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme remain deadlocked.”

“The internationally-recognised government is fighting back against the Houthis - or trying to - with the help of Saudi air strikes.”

“Yemen has been engulfed in conflict since the Houthis seized Sanaa and several other provinces in 2014, prompting a Saudi-led coalition to intervene in March 2015 in support of the internationally recognised government.”

“Iran says Saudi Arabia, Houthis have not answered mediation offer CAIRO, Oct 20 - Iran has not received a response from Saudi Arabia or Yemen's Houthis to its offer to help broker talks to end the fighting between them, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi…”

“An alleged Saudi airstrike in Yemen on Sunday (October 18, 2026) killed at least nine people and wounded 16 others, Houthi media reported, as fighting between the two sides in the country's revived civil war escalates further.”

“Saudi strikes on Yemen kill 12, Houthis say SANAA, Yemen – Saudi strikes that began overnight have killed at least 12 people in Yemen, three of them children, Houthi media reported on Oct 17.”

“The United Arab Emirates has agreed to re-enter the Yemen conflict by resuming payments to some government forces fighting Iran-aligned Houthis in the south, according to sources in Yemen.”

“THEATRE IN WIDER REGIONAL WAR The city is fast becoming the most important front in Yemen's reignited civil war — itself a new theatre in the wider regional conflict that began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran in February.”

“Missile hits headquarters of Saudi Aramco as Houthi conflict escalates A ballistic missile hit the headquarters complex of Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company, the world’s largest and the backbone of the kingdom’s economy, a company source told Reuters,…”

“Footage is believed to show Iran-backed fighters chasing Yemen's pro-Saudi forces across the desert in scenes that have been compared to Mad Max Video showed a number of vehicles being struck with explosives.”

“Iran said on Monday (October 12, 2026), it was "deeply concerned" by escalating attacks between Yemen's Tehran-backed Houthis and Saudi Arabia, after 14 people died in two days of strikes on Riyadh's airport.”

“Yemen’s Houthis release video of drone attacks on gov’t forces Yemen’s Houthis have released drone video said to show attacks on Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces, as fighting between them intensifies.”

“• 115 govt troops, 160 Houthi fighters killed in 24 hours • Rebels claim attack on Riyadh airport, deny losing territory • Riyadh claims intercepting missile • Over 184,000 people displaced by fighting • Pakistanis in Saudi Arabia urged to avoid sharing…”

“The claimed strikes mark an escalation in the Saudi-Houthi confrontation, with the conflict increasingly spilling beyond Yemen's borders and threatening Saudi economic and military infrastructure.”

“Their recent capture of the strategic Bab el-Mandeb strait and cross-border missile strikes on Saudi oil infrastructure have directly linked Yemen's internal conflict to the broader regional standoff involving Iran, the US, and Gulf nations.”

“The war in Yemen is no longer simply a domestic conflict.”

“Six people familiar with the matter told Reuters that the Saudis are planning a massive offensive, involving over 100,000 Yemeni troops, to possibly retake the Bab el Mandeb Strait.”

“Yemen carried out 20 strikes on Houthi targets in Taiz province, spokesperson says Oct 2 - The military spokesperson for Yemen's internationally recognized government said on Friday that warplanes carried out 20 strikes over the past three hours targeting…”

“The Houthis control the north and west, where most Yemenis live, while the internationally recognised government, which is backed by Saudi Arabia, holds most of the south and east.”

“The United Nations Security Council on Friday (September 25, 2026) condemned escalating attacks on Saudi Arabia by Yemeni Houthi fighters in a rare show of unity from the UN's top body.”

“UN rights chief ‘appalled’ by Yemen conflict’s swelling civilian toll GENEVA - The UN rights chief voiced outrage on Sept 24 at the growing civilian toll in Yemen, as the conflict between the Iran-backed Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces and their…”

“Iran has long provided military support to the Houthis but denies any involvement in the Yemen conflict.”

“The US military campaign in Iran, which has widened into a regional conflict since it began in February, has reignited Yemen’s civil war and a decade-long conflict between the Tehran-backed Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia.”

“I’VE SPENT A GOOD PART OF MY professional life studying and fighting in the Middle East, and even I have found the latest developments between Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the Houthis, and the United States difficult to follow.”