Yemen moves closer to 'all-out war'
Submitted by WW4 Report on Sun, 08/16/2026 - 21:36
Yemen is closer to all-out war than at any other point since 2022, UN Special Envoy Hans Grundberg told the Security Council on Aug. 13 amid an upsurge of violence in and around the divided country. A Houthi attack on a cargo ship in the Bab el-Mandeb strait on Aug. 11 killed six people, while fresh clashes between Houthi and government forces erupted in the frontline city of Taiz the following day. The Houthis said a drone strike the day after that on Saudi Arabia's Jizan oil refinery, on the Red Sea just over the border from Yemen, was a response to Saudi violations of Yemeni airspace. (TNH)
Mass displacement n Yemen's Taiz
The UN migration agency reports that 1,362 people were forcibly displaced between Aug. 25 and 26 in Yemen's Taiz province, with clashes and shelling forcing the evacuation of camps for people who had already been displaced by the country's war. (TNH)
Yemenis forced to flee as battles rage
Yemen's Houthi rebels have seized the Red Sea port city of Mokha and an island in the Bab al-Mandeb strait, consolidating their control over the shipping route to the Red Sea. The Houthis, who control much of north Yemen, say they only plan to target ships coming from Saudi Arabia. The kingdom has relied heavily on the Bab al-Mandeb strait to export oil since the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The strategic port is not the only place in Yemen where the Houthis and government-allied forces are fighting anew. There are battles in al-Jawf, which lies between Houthi and government-controlled regions, as well as in Taiz. Aid groups have pointed out that the renewed violence has displaced 46,000 people in just a week, with entire villages emptying and Yemen's already strained health system coming under serious pressure. (TNH)