Yemeni forces claim strategic district amid intensified Houthi clashes

More than 60 people, including civilians, killed as clashes between Yemeni forces and Houthis intensify in Taiz.

Al JazeeraAl Jazeera Staff2026-09-06 05:02查看原文 ↗

More than 60 people, including civilians, killed as clashes between Yemeni forces and Houthis intensify in Taiz province.

Houthi supporters walk in Sanaa, Yemen, on July 13, 2026, with posters of Iranian scientists killed in Israeli strikes in the background [Osamah Abdulrahman/AP]

Military forces of Yemen’s internationally recognised government have been engaged in intense clashes with Houthi rebels across multiple fronts, most heavily in the Taiz and Hodeidah provinces and along the western Red Sea coast.

Yemen’s military said it recaptured Hais district, south of Hodeidah, an area linking the provinces of Hodeidah, Taiz and Ibb, according to Turkiye’s Anadolu news agency.

list 1 of 3 At least 100 killed as Yemen’s Houthis push towards key strait

list 2 of 3 Houthi attacks on Yemen’s Taiz escalate, triggering new displacement wave

list 3 of 3 Houthi fighters clash with Yemeni government forces in country’s southwest

The Presidential Leadership Council chairman, Rashad al-Alimi, said that Yemen’s armed forces are capable of restoring full control over the country’s territory, warning that the Houthis “will bear the consequences”.

Taiz “will not be a corridor” for the group’s backers, he added, in reference to Iran.

He said the Houthis’ “miscalculations” would lead to their “complete collapse.”

The latest fighting continues the tit-for-tat attacks that broke out last week, with air raids and ground offensives between government troops and the Iran-backed rebels.

Fayad al-Numan, deputy undersecretary of Yemen’s Ministry of Information, said troops had also captured dozens of Houthi fighters during fighting in the nearby al-Jarahi district, where government forces later launched a counteroffensive.

Yemeni forces continued strikes on Houthi positions in areas across Taiz and Lahj on Saturday.

Yemeni media reported that the military’s drones destroyed Houthi reinforcements south of al-Jarahi in coordination with a ground assault.

Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported on Sunday that powerful explosions were heard in Taiz, noting the Yemeni Defence Ministry’s deployment of new weapons systems.

Yemen’s military spokesman, Colonel Majed al-Nozaili, said forces targeted a Houthi site in the province in response to the group’s “violations and escalation”.

The ongoing clashes between Yemen’s armed forces and Houthi rebels have displaced nearly 1,800 families in two days, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) [Yahya Arhab/EPA]

The renewed clashes have taken a heavy toll on civilians.

Clashes in Taiz killed more than 60 people, including civilians, on Saturday, the AFP news agency reported.

Yemen’s state news agency Saba’a, meanwhile, reported that Houthi shelling of a civilian gathering on the road linking Taiz and Aden killed four civilians and injured nine others.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that about 1,800 families have been displaced over the past two days as fighting escalated in Taiz.

The Yemeni government has separately warned that any Houthi movement towards the Bab al-Mandeb strait would face “harsh attrition”.

在也门塔伊兹省，也门政府军与胡塞武装之间的冲突加剧，造成包括平民在内的60多人死亡。

2026年7月13日，胡塞武装支持者走在也门萨那街头，背景中可以看到在以色列空袭中丧生的伊朗科学家的海报。[Osamah Abdulrahman/AP]

也门国际公认的政府军与胡塞武装在多条战线上展开激烈冲突，其中塔伊兹省、荷台达省和红海西岸的冲突最为激烈。

据土耳其阿纳多卢通讯社报道，也门军方称已重新夺回位于荷台达以南的海斯区，该地区连接荷台达省、塔伊兹省和伊卜省。

列表 1/3：也门胡塞武装向关键海峡推进，至少 100 人丧生

也门胡塞武装对塔伊兹的袭击升级，引发新一轮流离失所浪潮（共3条记录，此为第2条）

3张照片中的第3张：胡塞武装与也门政府军在也门西南部发生冲突

总统领导委员会主席拉沙德·阿里米表示，也门武装部队有能力恢复对该国领土的全面控制，并警告说胡塞武装“将承担后果”。

他补充说，塔伊兹“不会成为”该组织支持者的通道，他指的是伊朗。

他表示，胡塞武装的“误判”将导致其“彻底崩溃”。

最新爆发的战斗延续了上周爆发的针锋相对的袭击，政府军和伊朗支持的叛军之间展开了空袭和地面进攻。