Houthis strike Yemen government and Saudi targets as violence intensifies
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Yemen's Houthis launched a series of ballistic missile and drone attacks on Saudi and pro-government military targets amid an escalation of fighting. The Iran-backed movement struck back as Saudi-backed forces launched a counter-offensive to retake Red Sea territories captured by the group last month.
Yemen's Houthis have hit a range of targets in Saudi Arabia and in pro-government areas including Aden, as the country's war intensifies.
According to the state-run Saba news agency, the Sanaa-based group targeted the airport in Aden, seat of the internationally recognised government, on Wednesday.
"Houthi terrorist militias targeted Aden International Airport with two ballistic missiles and explosive-laden drones," the agency reported.
The Houthis, known officially as Ansar Allah, said they had targeted a military base located within the airport complex.
"Our armed forces fired ballistic missiles at a Saudi military supply convoy that had arrived at Camp Badr, near the airport," said Ansar Allah military spokesman Yahya Saree.
Earlier this week, Yemen’s internationally recognised government, which is backed by Saudi Arabia, began a counter-offensive to retake Red Sea coastal territory that the Houthis captured last month.
The Yemeni government announced on Sunday that the campaign's overall objective is to retake all of the territory it has lost to the Houthis over 12 years of war.
Bab al-Mandab advance
Saudi Arabia and its Yemeni allies began attacking Houthi positions on Monday.
By evening local time, they claimed they had taken back the Arabian Gulf side of the Bab al-Mandab Strait and Mocha, the strategic Red Sea port city that the Houthis had wrested from them in September.
Houthi channels denied that Mocha had been taken, posting videos of their fighters inside the city. Other reports and open source information appeared to corroborate this, suggesting that the fighting around the port city was largely made up of long-range missile exchanges and that Mocha remains in the hands of the Houthis.
On Tuesday, the Iran-aligned movement claimed missile and drone attacks on several sites across Saudi Arabia.
Sanaa said it had targeted the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh with drones. It also said that missile and drone strikes were launched at the Abha International Airport and an airbase in the southwestern city of Khamis Mushait.
The fighting in Yemen has intensified the humanitarian crisis in the country.
More than 130,000 people have been displaced inside Yemen since the beginning of August, the UN's refugee agency said on Tuesday.
The UNHCR also reported that nearly 3,700 people had fled Yemen for Djibouti since 10 September.
According to the state-run Saba news agency, the Sanaa-based group targeted the airport in Aden, seat of the internationally recognised government, on Wednesday.
"Houthi terrorist militias targeted Aden International Airport with two ballistic missiles and explosive-laden drones," the agency reported.
The Houthis, known officially as Ansar Allah, said they had targeted a military base located within the airport complex.
"Our armed forces fired ballistic missiles at a Saudi military supply convoy that had arrived at Camp Badr, near the airport," said Ansar Allah military spokesman Yahya Saree.
Earlier this week, Yemen’s internationally recognised government, which is backed by Saudi Arabia, began a counter-offensive to retake Red Sea coastal territory that the Houthis captured last month.
The Yemeni government announced on Sunday that the campaign's overall objective is to retake all of the territory it has lost to the Houthis over 12 years of war.
Bab al-Mandab advance
Saudi Arabia and its Yemeni allies began attacking Houthi positions on Monday.
By evening local time, they claimed they had taken back the Arabian Gulf side of the Bab al-Mandab Strait and Mocha, the strategic Red Sea port city that the Houthis had wrested from them in September.
Houthi channels denied that Mocha had been taken, posting videos of their fighters inside the city. Other reports and open source information appeared to corroborate this, suggesting that the fighting around the port city was largely made up of long-range missile exchanges and that Mocha remains in the hands of the Houthis.
On Tuesday, the Iran-aligned movement claimed missile and drone attacks on several sites across Saudi Arabia.
Sanaa said it had targeted the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh with drones. It also said that missile and drone strikes were launched at the Abha International Airport and an airbase in the southwestern city of Khamis Mushait.
The fighting in Yemen has intensified the humanitarian crisis in the country.
More than 130,000 people have been displaced inside Yemen since the beginning of August, the UN's refugee agency said on Tuesday.
The UNHCR also reported that nearly 3,700 people had fled Yemen for Djibouti since 10 September.
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