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Saudi Arabia launched 28 airstrikes across three Yemeni governorates in the past 24 hours, the Houthi movement said Sunday, as fighting between the Iran-aligned group and Yemen's Saudi-backed government intensifies in a civil war that reignited earlier this year.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the strikes targeted the governorates of Taiz, Al-Jawf and Marib. "The Saudi air force carried out 28 strikes targeting the governorates of Taiz, Al-Jawf, and Marib, using F-15 and Typhoon aircraft that took off from the Khamis Mushait and Taif airbases," he said in a statement.
The reported strikes come weeks after the Houthis, who already controlled most of Yemen's populated territory, launched a rapid offensive this month to seize the country's entire Red Sea coastline.
The advance handed the group control over the Bab al-Mandab strait, one of the world's most strategically important shipping corridors.
The Houthis maintain that passage through the strait remains open to all vessels, with the exception of those flagged to Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen's internationally recognized government said Saturday that the Houthis fired a ballistic missile toward Riyadh at dawn, an attack that coincided with a fire that broke out near the Saudi capital's international airport.
Yemen's conflict began in 2014, when Houthi forces seized the capital, Sanaa. Saudi Arabia has led a military coalition supporting the internationally recognized government since 2015, an intervention that deepened the fighting and helped produce what the United Nations has called one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
Although the conflict had been largely frozen since a 2022 truce, hostilities resumed in July.
The toll on Yemen's population has been severe. In 2025, the UN warned that 17 million people in the country were struggling to secure enough food, with a further one million facing extreme hunger.
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