CAIRO (Reuters) - Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement said on Thursday that it carried out attacks on military sites in Jizan Airport in Saudi Arabia, the group’s Al-Masirah TV reported. There was no Saudi confirmation of the attacks. The Houthis, who are fighting in neighboring Y...
Supported by the United States, a Saudi-led coalition began air strikes against the Houthis and army units loyal to ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh on March 26 with the aim of restoring the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. The Houthis say their campaign is aimed at fighting ...
It's also often referred to as a proxy war with the two regional superpowers,Saudi ArabiaandIran, accused of fuelling and perpetuating the conflict by supplying weapons and support to the different groups. Britain has provided arms and targeted support to the Saudi-led coaliti...
The Iranian proxy groupHezbollah, a terrorist organization operating in Lebanon and elsewhere, also has longstanding ties to the Houthis, who are from the Zaidi branch of Shiite Islam. Working with Iran, Hezbollah reportedly operates on the ground in Yemen, arming, training, and even fighting for...
The Houthis are a rebel group in Yemen who have been fighting the Saudi-backed government of Yemen for years. In 2015, Saudi Arabia intervened in Yemen to prevent the group taking Aden and other cities. Since then, the Houthis have fired missiles and drones at Riyadh. ...
The Houthi forces have been fighting to take Aden, a last foothold of fighters loyal to Saudi-backed president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, advancing to the city centre despite 11 days of air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition of mainly Gulf air forces. ...
Hezbollah leader says his group must retaliate for suspected Israeli strike in Beirut The last four months have seen low-intensity fighting along the Israel-Lebanon border, attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea, the targeting of U.S. bases in Syria and Iraq. and the killing of...
A Saudi-led coalition intervened in 2015 to try to restore Yemen’s exiled, internationally recognized government to power. Years of bloody, inconclusive fighting against the Saudi-led coalition settled into a stalemated proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran, causing widespread hunger an...
These forecasts became reality in 2014 as the country spiralled into civil war. The conflict pits an alliance of the Houthis, a northern socio-political movement that had been fighting the central government since 2004, alongside troops loyal to a former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, against ...
The Houthis are fighting for control of Yemen against the internationally recognized government that controls part of the south and is supported mainly by the UAE. The unanswered question is whether forces loyal to that government can take the fight to the Houthis. “They’re already train...