The Houthi militant group, an Iran-backed militia, conducted a large-scale attack against forces from Yemen’s Saudi-backed government on Thursday. The attacks targeted military camps in the resource-rich provinces of Marib and Hadramout.
Government sources reported that at least 30 Yemeni government troops were killed in the strikes, noting that the death toll could rise. Medical sources described the event as the deadliest violence between the two sides in years.
The escalating violence imperils a fragile truce and marks the latest front in the US-Iran war. These developments have raised concerns that the US-Israeli war on Iran could broaden into a region-wide conflict.