Houthi rebels launch new attacks on Saudi-backed troops

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have launched new attacks on Saudi-backed troops in Yemen. The attacks come as Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia sign a mutual defense deal. CBS News national security contributor Samantha Vinograd joins with analysis.

Yemen’s Houthis claim attack on Marib hit Saudi-backed forces Yemen's Houthis attacked and hit Saudi-backed forces, depots and military equipment near the central city of Marib, the group's spokesman Yahya Saree said on Friday. In a post on Telegram, Saree said the Houthis will continue to “strike forcefully any

Yemen's Houthis said on Friday that they struck Saudi-backed forces, depots, vehicles and military equipment at the Sahn al-Jinn camp with a number of missiles and drones.

A military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Thursday's attacks on troop camps were the worst in Yemen since 2022.

Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis killed at least 58 government troops in missile and drone attacks on Thursday, a military source said, in one of the deadliest days of the country's civil war in four years. The attacks come as Yemen is increasingly drawn into the US-Israeli war with Iran, with the rebels ste

At least 58 Yemeni government troops were killed in missile and drone attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

Attacks mark one of the deadliest clashes since 2022, officials say

The Houthi militant group said it conducted a “large-scale” attack against forces from Yemen’s Saudi-backed government, raising concerns over a broadening of the US-Israeli war on Iran into a region-wide conflict.

Crude prices rose Wednesday after Yemen's Houthis claimed they had struck a Saudi Arabian oil tanker in the Red Sea.