Taiz fronts: violent battles between Yemeni forces and the Houthis

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On Thursday, the Yemeni Armed Forces responded to artillery shelling and intense attacks launched by the Houthi militia in Al-Sayyahi, Hathran, Al-Dhabab, and Jabal Han, west of Taiz.

The Yemeni armed forces were able to put out the sources of Houthi fire in Ghorab and Al-Rubaie, northwest of the city, while the militia continued to bomb the air defense and surrounding residential neighborhoods with many shells.

Violent confrontations also broke out with the Houthi militias on the eastern, northern, and southwestern fronts of Taiz, coinciding with violent raids by Yemeni warplanes that targeted the militias’ sites, reinforcements, and weapons stores.

The Yemeni army aircraft launched air strikes on several Houthi sites in Al-Ahkoum and Al-Athawar in the southeast of Taiz Governorate.

The Yemeni army announced the targeting and destruction of weapons stores containing large quantities of ammunition, including thermal anti-tank missiles and artillery shells, in the east of Saada Governorate.

For his part, the official spokesman for the Armed Forces, Colonel Majid Al-Nuzaili, said that the forces carried out 8 precise targeting operations that resulted in the destruction of Houthi reinforcements, weapons and equipment, including three artillery batteries in Al-Waziyah, and a mobile air defense system developed with expertise from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Al-Mokha, in addition to the neutralization of Houthi leaders and elements in Al-Mansoura and Bab Al-Mandab.

The raids also destroyed weapons depots in eastern Saada containing large quantities of ammunition, including thermal anti-tank missiles and artillery shells.

This coincided with violent battles with various weapons on the Sami’, Al-Ahkoum, Bani Omar, Rasin, Jabal Habashi, Maqbana, Al-Kadha and Al-Dhabab fronts.