Saudis plan assault on Houthis to break Red Sea chokehold: Reuters
The plan would rely on Yemeni ground forces and Saudi airstrikes, with U.S. intelligence support and up to 100,000 troops potentially mobilized, officials said.
- Saudi Arabia is preparing an offensive against Houthi militants within weeks, led by Yemeni ground forces overseen by Riyadh and backed by Saudi air strikes, aiming to retake the strategic Bab el-Mandeb strait.
- Riyadh concluded peace negotiations are unviable while Houthis control the Bab el-Mandeb strait, which the group seized during a lightning offensive last month, providing them significant global leverage.
- Officials expect mobilization of up to 100,000 Yemeni troops for either a focused coastal push or a multi-front assault across Al-Bayda, Marib, Taiz and Al-Jawf, while the United States provides intelligence and targeting data but excludes direct combat involvement.
- Pakistan has deployed between 30,000 and 40,000 troops to Saudi Arabia to defend land borders, while France and Turkey provide defensive systems, freeing Riyadh's military assets for the upcoming campaign.
- Amid renewed conflict following the 2022 truce breakdown, the campaign aims to restore the status quo ante before Houthi control, as recent attacks have targeted Saudi oil facilities near Riyadh.
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The hostilities between the Houthis rebels, on the one hand, and Saudi Arabia and the internationally recognized Yemeni government, on the other, resumed in July.
The Saudi Arabia-led Yemeni government forces coalition and Yemen's pro-Iranian Houthi rebels are bombing each other's capitals, threatening to escalate the conflict. There are also observations that a major offensive by the government coalition, mobilizing 100,000 ground troops, is imminent. The Houthis issued a statement on the 3rd (local time), stating, “Using multiple ballistic missiles and drones, the enemy
The Houthis attacked Aramco facilities in Riyadh with drones and ballistic missiles. Fire and smoke were visible, but Saudi Arabia has not confirmed the attack.
Yemen's Houthis, aligned with Iran, claimed on Saturday that they had “several” ballistic missiles and drones against the facilities of the state oil company Aramco in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.In a statement released on social media, the Zaidi Shiite militia claimed that the offensive was in retaliation for Saudi attacks on Sana'a and other Yemeni provinces.The military spokesman for the insurgents, Yahya Sarea, said in his X account …
The current attack took place against the backdrop of an escalation of hostilities between Saudi Arabia and the Yemeni Husites.
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