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)