November 9, 2026
On Monday, the Yemeni Armed Forces announced the implementation of a series of intense air and artillery attacks targeting sites, gatherings, and reinforcements belonging to the Houthi group on several fronts, as part of Operation “Yemen Dawn.”
The official spokesman for the armed forces, Colonel Majid Al-Nuzaili, explained in an official statement that the operations included 17 air strikes carried out by warplanes, and 123 operations by drones that targeted combat sites, gatherings, and military vehicles on the Al-Jawf, Ma’rib, Mudaraba, and Southwestern Fronts.
Al-Nuzaili added that the launcher units carried out 60 targeting operations, while the field artillery fought 782 operations on various fronts, focusing on destroying Houthi fortifications, their firing positions, sniper positions, and gatherings of elements and reinforcements.
Initial field estimates included in the statement indicated that about 127 people were killed and wounded among the group’s leaders and members, in addition to dozens fleeing the battlefields on the Al-Jawf, Marib, and Taiz fronts. The operations also resulted in the destruction and damage of about 158 vehicles, armored vehicles, and military equipment used by the group in its engineering work.
At the field level, the combat units of the emergency teams and the “Homeland Shield” forces on the Al-Jawf fronts continued to target the Houthi movements and were able to control new strategic locations. In Taiz, the armed forces, backed by popular resistance, fought fierce confrontations to confront the group’s attacks and target its sources of fire.
In the same context, the “Homeland Shield” units, the Giants Brigades, and the National Resistance, on the southern and southwestern fronts, carried out surprise attacks that resulted in the recovery of strategic sites, while those forces continue to perform their combat missions to deal with the Houthi movements in several axes.
