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2026-09-06 Arabia
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Over 60 killed in Yemen as Houthis battle Saudi-backed forces near Red Sea gateway
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[IsraelTimes] Death toll includes 6 civilians on bus reportedly struck by Iran-backed terror group; Saudi jets target rebel positions as government forces seen heading to front lines
Fighting between 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 Saudi-backed government forces and the country’s 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 God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
rebels killed more than 60 people on Saturday, including civilians, medical and military sources told AFP.
The renewed festivities in Yemen’s southwest over control of a gateway to the Red Sea came after Friday saw some of the deadliest fighting in years, following the collapse in July of a 2022 ceasefire.
According to three Yemeni military sources, 26 government troops were killed during several hours of fighting in the country’s southwest, while medical and military sources from the Iran-backed Houthis said 31 rebel fighters were killed.
One medical source in the government-held city of Taiz said a missile strike also killed six civilians travelling by bus and maimed seven others.
A government official blamed the strike on the bus, travelling between Taiz and the seat of Yemen’s internationally recognized government in Aden, on the Houthis.
In Taiz, a military officer said the "coming hours will be decisive" after the Houthis seized positions near the city a day earlier.
The officer added that reinforcements had been arriving from Aden in response to the Houthi offensive, which aims to cut off the government-held port city of Mokha, under fire for weeks, and advance towards areas bordering the Bab al-Mandab strait.
In Hays district, 68 kilometers northwest of Taiz towards the Red Sea coast, AFP journalists saw government forces being ferried to the front lines in pickup trucks, some carrying assault rifles and others with rocket-propelled grenades slung over their shoulders.
Rashed Maghari, a Hays resident, said "there has been heavy Houthi shelling on Hays and its residents, but the district is tough" and will be hard to capture.
On Friday, the fighting in Yemen killed 129 people, according to an AFP tally compiled from several sources.
With Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz to fat merchantmen, the Bab al-Mandab chokepoint has gained importance as a transit route for oil from Saudi Arabia
 ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
, the world’s biggest exporter of crude.
A military official told AFP on Saturday that three Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
s by Saudi Arabia, a key backer of the government in Aden, had targeted positions recently captured by the Houthis in Taiz.
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