New attacks by the Houthis, who struck with drones and ballistic missiles at weapons depots and command and control centers in a military base in the Sharurah region, Saudi Arabia.
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Warning that future operations will be “more intense and broader in scope” and that they will push deep into Saudi territory. Riyadh’s state media released footage showing damage also to homes and a mosque in another rebel raid in the southern province of Jazan.
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Riyadh, which leads the fragmented anti-Houthi coalition, is trying to counter the offensive of the “partisans of God”: Saudi aircraft carried out two airstrikes against the districts of Sahar and Baqim,” reported Sanaa Almasirah TV, affiliated with the Houthis, which a few minutes earlier had reported “artillery fire” in the border district of Monabbih.
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The Yemeni government, meanwhile, has promised to send additional forces to the Red Sea coast after admitting a “painful” defeat last week, when pro-Iranian fighters captured the port city of Mokha and an island that allows them to control the strategic Bab el-Mandeb strait, one of the world’s most important routes for transporting oil from the Gulf to the Mediterranean.
But for now the Houthis seem firmly entrenched in their advance, which according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has caused 86,000 displaced since July. And they feel less vulnerable after Donald Trump twice refused a direct intervention request from Mohammed bin Salman.
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