Yemen’s government forces attack Houthis amid renewed shelling of Marib
- Fears of a wider conflict grow as Yemen’s army counterattacks and expert warns ‘all the warning signs are there’.
- Yemeni government forces have launched attacks on Houthi positions across multiple front lines, hours after the group renewed its shelling of Marib city, raising fears that years of relative calm could give way to wider conflict.
- A military spokesman said the attacks on Saturday targeted the Houthis’ “capabilities and forces” along “multiple axes and along the line of contact”, describing the operation as necessary to “protect unarmed civilians”.
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- Fears of a wider conflict grow as Yemen’s army counterattacks and expert warns ‘all the warning signs are there’.
- Yemeni government forces have launched attacks on Houthi positions across multiple front lines, hours after the group renewed its shelling of Marib city, raising fears that years of relative calm could give way to wider conflict.
- A military spokesman said the attacks on Saturday targeted the Houthis’ “capabilities and forces” along “multiple axes and along the line of contact”, describing the operation as necessary to “protect unarmed civilians”.
Sources: Al Jazeera