Yemen is closer to all-out war [8] 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 [13] strait on Aug. 11 killed six people [9], while fresh clashes between Houthi and government forces erupted [10] in the frontline city of Taiz [11] 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 [14])
