Category: Yemen
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Yemen’s government says the Houthis fired two missiles at Aden airport with 151 passengers present, and claims advances in Marib. The precise passenger figure is doing deliberate work, and Marib is contested for reasons that long predate the regional war.
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Sixty people were killed in a single day of fighting in south-west Yemen, including six civilians on a bus in Taiz. The offensive is moving toward Bab al-Mandab, and almost nobody is reporting it.
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While coverage of the Middle East follows Iran, Hormuz and the Houthis, conflict monitors are recording something quieter: jihadist groups adapting to the space that has opened in southern Yemen and northeastern Syria.
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Seventy-three UN staff are being held by the Houthis, and a May agreement to release more than 1,600 conflict-related detainees has stalled. Coverage of Yemen follows the missiles, which is how the slower failures go unrecorded.
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MSF admitted 1,296 severely malnourished children with complications at one hospital in northern Yemen in six months, against 798 a year earlier. The rise is sharper than the lean season alone explains.
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Mocha has been closed since mid-August after more than 25 missiles hit it — the first attacks on the port since the 2022 truce. Yemen’s frozen war is thawing, and almost nobody is reporting it.
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Saudi Arabia says Houthi attacks reached the kingdom this week. Why Saudi Arabia is in this war, and how fighting in Yemen reaches global oil prices within hours.
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Houthi missile and drone attacks killed dozens of Yemeni government soldiers on Thursday — the worst escalation since the 2022 truce. Here’s who is fighting whom, why now, and why it matters far beyond Yemen.