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Yemeni government forces carried out strikes on Houthi positions in the southwestern Taiz province and downed a drone in neighboring Lahj province on Wednesday, while the group fired ballistic missiles toward the coastal Ras al-Ara area, according to military-affiliated media.
The Yemeni Armed Forces’ media center said forces from the 4th Military Region targeted Houthi positions, barracks, and personnel on the Al-Kadha front west of Taiz.
Reports say Yemeni government forces withdrew from Mayyun Island, strategically located in the heart of the critical waterway, allowing the Houthis to capture it. The Iran-backed terrorist group also reportedly seized the Red Sea coastal town of Dhubab, near Bab al-Mandab.
The Houthis had seized Mayyun Island, also known as Perim Island. The takeover effectively gave the Houthis control of the Bab al-Mandab Strait area. Reuters reported that forces belonging to Yemen’s internationally recognized government had withdrawn from the island.
The United States and Iran have sharply escalated their confrontation, with Washington destroying five Iranian oil tankers and Tehran responding with missile attacks on US forces in Jordan and claims of strikes against American warships and other vessels.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on September 9 that its forces destroyed the Kaviz, Charminar, Horizon 1, and Riesco in the Gulf of Oman and the Derya near Iran’s Kharg Island.
Fighting between Iran-backed Houthi terrorists and Yemeni government forces killed dozens of combatants and civilians Saturday as the Houthis pressed an offensive in western Taiz and southern Hodeidah along the Red Sea coast.
Twenty-six government troops and 31 Houthi fighters were killed during several hours of combat in southwestern Yemen, medical and military sources told Agence France-Presse.
A Russian drone struck the Kyiv headquarters of Ukraine’s Security Service, the SBU, on Friday, in a rare direct hit on a key government building that highlights Ukraine’s dire shortages of air defenses.
The daytime strike - the first time the SBU building has been hit in the four-and-a-half year conflict - came after days of near continuous aerial assaults by Russia on the Ukrainian capital.