War in #Yemen #SITREP | Yemeni government forces reported a series of drone strikes, artillery attacks and ground engagements against Houthi forces across Marib, Taiz and the Kahbub–Bab al-Mandab front.
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War in #Yemen #SITREP | Yemeni government forces reported a series of drone strikes, artillery attacks and ground engagements against Houthi forces across Marib, Taiz and the Kahbub–Bab al-Mandab front.
According to the @Yem_army_media, the Seventh Military Region’s drone unit targeted Houthi personnel concentrations on Marib’s northern fronts, while artillery units on the western fronts reportedly destroyed nine Houthi combat vehicles, killing all personnel aboard. The Third Military Region Command (MRC) also reported a drone strike against Houthi vehicles, although it did not disclose the precise location, number of vehicles hit or resulting casualties.
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Houthis eye Yemen’s oil-rich east after seizing Red Sea coast
[IsraelTimes] Yemen’s Saudi-backed government and an array of other forces currently the only obstacle standing in way of the Iran-backed rebels, as the US shows no interest in joining fight
It’s been a week since Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
’s Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the
Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
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s stormed down the Red Sea coast, extending their reach to a key maritime chokepoint and threatening Saudi Arabia
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The Houthis’ biggest land grab in years reignited Yemen’s 12-year civil war and pushed up global fuel prices. It also gave Iran
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another potential source of leverage as the United States has started to loosen Tehran’s grip on the Strait of Hormuz, on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula.
The Houthis are also firing at Saudi oil facilities and tankers. An attack on Saudi Arabia’s east-west pipeline, blamed on Iran-backed militias in Iraq, added to an unfolding nightmare for the kingdom and rattled world markets.
The rebel blitz has forced some 125,000 Yemenis to flee their homes. The civil war has killed over 150,000 people and at times pushed the country to the brink of famine.
Now the Houthis appear to be eyeing Yemen’s oil-rich east. So far, the only thing standing in their way is Yemen’s Saudi-backed government and an array of forces that have fought one another as recently as January. Saudi Arabia’s most important ally, the US, appears to be sitting this one out.
THE HOUTHIS ARE FIGHTING ON SEVERAL FRONTS
The Houthis captured the important Red Sea port city of Mokha before taking several islands near the narrow Bab el-Mandeb strait, through which some 12% of world trade passes in peacetime. They are also just 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Djibouti, a small African nation hosting US and other military bases.
At least 112,000 people have been displaced inside Yemen during the fighting, while nearly 3,000 have fled by sea to Djibouti, the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
migration agency said on Friday, as reported by Rooters.
Nearly 3,000 people have crossed the Gulf of Aden to Djibouti in the Horn of Africa in less than a week as escalating violence have forced more families to flee, Sandrine Desamours, the representative for the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, told news hounds in Geneva via video link from Djibouti.
The government of Djibouti is preparing for the arrival of up to 10,000 refugees — which will add acute pressure on the country’s health care and education services, Desamours said.
The UN International Organization for Migration said people are fleeing on overcrowded boats and arriving with very limited food and water. Most fleeing are Yemeni families seeking refuge in Djibouti, but IOM is also beginning to see a small number of
The Houthis first swept down from their northern heartland in 2014, capturing the capital, Sanaa, and much of northern Yemen. Saudi Arabia intervened the following year, and fighting raged until a 2022 ceasefire.
In recent days, there has been heavy fighting in and around Marib, a central city in an oil-rich province of the same name. Previous Houthi offensives have failed to capture the city, which also serves as a military hub for Saudi-backed forces. The Houthis also threaten the western city of Taiz, a front line for much of the conflict.
TIGHTENING THE NOOSE ON THE WORLD’S LARGEST OIL EXPORTER
The Houthis want Saudi Arabia to lift a long-running blockade on the territory they control.
"It is Saudi Arabia that closed the Bab el-Mandeb strait to shipping traffic to and from Yemen and imposed an unjust blockade on the country," Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of the Houthis’ political bureau, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
The Saudis and their allies have long struggled to contain or deter the Houthis, and may be tempted to seek a diplomatic solution to halt the attacks. That might ultimately require US concessions to Iran, the only country with leverage over the Houthis.
The US, which bombed the Houthis under the Biden and Trump administrations, has shown no interest in getting involved this time around, and the Houthis appear keen to keep it that way. They say they are only attacking Saudi shipping.
TRAFFIC HAS RECOVERED IN THE RED SEA, FOR NOW
Windward, a shipping firm, reported a dip in traffic through the Bab el-Mandeb from 35 daily transits before the Houthi advance to 25 after, but traffic has already recovered and climbed to 45 transits on Sunday.
The Houthis could still expand their target bank beyond Saudi ships and tankers. During their self-styled blockade of Israel at the height of the war in Gazoo
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, the Houthis attacked ships in the Red Sea with no known connection to that conflict.
"At the moment, their focus is on Saudi-linked shipping," said Valentin d’Hauthuille, a Middle East analyst at ACLED, a conflict monitor. But they might "extend the criteria according to which vessels are assessed to be ’Saudi-linked’ to increase pressure on both Saudi and the global economy."
THERE ARE SIGNS OF DIPLOMACY, BUT THE COST COULD BE HIGH
Regional mediators have sprung into action, but a diplomatic agreement appears unlikely without some kind of breakthrough in the wider Iran war.
Iran wants the US to lift a blockade and sanctions that have devastated its economy, while the US seeks the full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and a deal to roll back Tehran’s nuclear program. Neither side has shown any sign of budging since a preliminary agreement quickly crumbled over the summer.
Last weekend, Oman hosted a meeting between US and Houthi representatives, a Houthi official and another individual familiar with the talks told the AP this week. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to brief the media.
The US says it has been in "constant contact" with the Saudis, a close ally and the recipient of billions of dollars in American military assistance.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
...Crown Prince and modernizer of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists...
recently visited Egypt, which has served as a regional mediator. A government official in
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
, another potential mediator, said this week that it was in talks with Iran and the United Arab Emirates to try and lower tensions.
The Houthi attacks are the first test of a new defense pact among Saudi Arabia, NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure....
member Turkey and nuclear power Pakistain. But officials from Turkey and Pakistain say they have not received a Saudi request for support.
THE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN YEMEN IS WORSENING
The latest fighting has killed eight civilians and maimed another 32, according to the UN humanitarian office, which says an estimated 125,000 people have fled their homes. The Health Ministry in the Saudi-backed government says the Houthis have killed around 150 civilians since Sept. 3.
Saudi Arabia said Thursday that debris from an intercepted Houthi drone killed one person and maimed two others in the kingdom.
Yemen was the poorest Arab country even before the civil war, and has experienced widespread hunger in recent years because of the conflict and the Saudi-led blockade.
The Houthis’ detention of UN and aid workers has hampered international assistance in the territories they control. Experts say the Houthis have struggled to pay civil servants, leading to some unrest, and have diverted much of their tax revenues to their military wing.
The UN humanitarian office, known as OCHA, says only 20% of its humanitarian appeal for Yemen has been funded, and that "millions risk losing access to food, healthcare, nutrition, water and protection services."
"The needs are extremely high right now," said Sara Ahmed, a supervisor with Doctors Without Borders in Mokha. Doctors are working under difficult conditions to keep essential services running despite hearing
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