🔶 "Yemen’s government forces seize a strategic Houthi base"

🔶 "Yemen’s government forces seize a strategic Houthi base"

Yemen’s government forces, amid battles on multiple fronts, captured an important Houthi base.

A few days after repelling a Houthi attack on the port city of Al-Mokha, Yemen’s government military forces—supported by international recognition and by Saudi Arabia—have besieged the “Al-Labanat” garrison in Al-Jawf province and are advancing toward the center of this province.

Some Arab sources on Monday, September 7 (Shahrivar 16), reported that government forces had taken control of this strategic garrison in the east of the city of Al-Hazm in Al-Jawf province—one of the most important Houthi bases in the province.

“Yemen Online,” a media outlet close to Yemen’s government, also reported on Monday that several brigades affiliated with this government achieved remarkable military successes in Yemen’s central Al-Bayda province after a large-scale military operation against Houthi militia positions, carried out simultaneously with concentrated airstrikes targeting their reinforcements and gathering points.

The report claimed that in these attacks several fighters, including senior field commanders of the Houthis and military experts affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), were killed.

In response, a Houthi official told the news agency affiliated with the group (Saba Net) that “airstrikes were carried out by the Saudi army and, during them, the provinces of Al-Jawf, Al-Bayda, Marib, and Taiz were hit by cruise missiles.”

The Houthis also reported the bombing of the Al-Hazm city prison by Saudi aircraft, while also claiming that they had targeted with missile attacks a number of trucks that were transporting ammunition and weapons from Saudi Arabia to government forces.

Meanwhile, media reported a Houthi attack on the Saudi Aramco refinery company in the Jizan province; this is the latest in a series of Houthi attacks that have taken these oil facilities—with a production capacity of 400,000 barrels per day—out of operation for weeks.

The Houthis claimed that on Saturday they fired dozens of ballistic missiles and drones at the site and described it as retaliation for Saudi Arabia’s drone incursions over Yemen.

Since late July—when previous strikes hit the fuel tanks and the power complex—this refinery has not been operating at full capacity.