Yemeni authorities forces have superior in western Taiz after efficiently repelling a Houthi offensive.
Printed On 14 Sep 2026
Armed forces affiliated with Yemen’s internationally recognised authorities have retaken positions from the Houthis and are advancing within the southwestern Taiz province as clashes intensify.
Reporting from Taiz on Monday, Al Jazeera Arabic’s Yasser Hassan mentioned forces loyal to the Saudi Arabia-backed Yemeni authorities superior in western Taiz on Sunday after efficiently repelling a Houthi offensive.
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“This comes with the assist of air strikes concentrating on Houthi gatherings. The air drive continues to bomb the Houthis. On the west coast in Mocha, Dhubab, and their environment,” Hassan mentioned, citing a supply in authorities forces.
In a press release on Monday, the Houthis, also called Ansar Allah (supporters of God), mentioned they launched assaults on targets in Saudi Arabia utilizing dozens of ballistic missiles and drones.
The group mentioned the assaults focused “navy amenities and infrastructure, together with plane hangars, radar installations, runways, ammunition depots and different targets at King Khalid airbase in Khamis Mushait”, Saudi Arabia.
It mentioned the assaults had been a response to a Saudi offensive, which concerned greater than 300 air strikes throughout Yemen over 5 days.
There was no speedy remark from Saudi Arabia on the Houthi claims.
On Sunday, the Saudi civil defence company despatched alerts for the town of Abha and the area round Khamis Mushait, however they had been shortly lifted shortly afterwards.
Preventing in Yemen’s greater than 10-year civil warfare reignited in July, threatening a United Nations-brokered truce that halted large-scale violence in 2022, after the Houthis declared a maritime blockade on Saudi Arabia and commenced concentrating on its ships within the Crimson Sea.
The preventing quickly spilled over past the nation’s borders, with the Houthis finishing up air assaults on southern Saudi Arabia, together with oil amenities. Dozens of individuals had been wounded in these assaults.
Clashes in Yemen intensified final week after the Houthis captured elements of the nation’s Crimson Beach, fortifying their maintain on the Bab al-Mandeb strait, a key waterway which handles about 12 % of worldwide commerce, together with 11 % of maritime oil and eight % of liquefied pure fuel (LNG).
The waterway has been an financial lifeline for Saudi Arabia and its oil exports, because the Strait of Hormuz has been successfully blocked by Iranian forces since the USA and Israel launched their warfare on Iran in February.
The Houthis captured extra strategic islands within the southern Crimson Sea, The Related Press information company reported on Monday, citing Yemeni authorities and Houthi officers.
Houthi fighters had been deployed on the islands of Better Hanish and Lesser Hanish about 86 nautical miles (160km) north of the Bab al-Mandeb, based on two authorities officers and a Houthi official, the AP reported.
In the meantime, the Worldwide Group for Migration mentioned on Sunday the preventing in Yemen in current weeks had displaced almost 86,000 folks.
It added that a few of these displaced by the battle had been fleeing Yemen altogether, with greater than 2,000 folks reaching neighbouring nation Djibouti.
