Taiz camps overflow with Yemenis fleeing fighting after Houthi offensive
The recent flare-up in the Yemen conflict has seen tens of thousands of people displaced in Taiz governorate.
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The recent flare-up in the Yemen conflict has seen tens of thousands of people displaced in Taiz governorate.
Houthi coastal advances face hurdles: geography, local resistance and fierce government counterattacks.
The conflict in Yemen intensified on Sunday, as government forces launched attacks against Iran-backed Houthi rebels along the Red Sea and Houthis fired into neighboring Saudi Arabia, which supports Yemen’s government. It comes after Houthis captured the port city of Mokha and an island on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a crucial shipping alternative to the Strait of Hormuz. The adds pressure on global oil supplies and prices, and that could give Iran leverage in its war with the United States. Andrew Hilliar has more.
More than 70 people were wounded in a wave of Houthi attacks Tuesday on Saudi Arabia, authorities said, a major escalation in the renewed conflict between an important US ally and the Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen. The attacks come after weeks of escalating clashes between the Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces in Yemen, which shattered a four-year truce in the country’s civil war. Fighting has raged on fronts including Yemen’s west coast, with government forces saying they have made...