Houthis Wound 11 in Saudi Arabia, Strike Yemen Troops
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- Houthis injured more than 10 civilians including a 4-year-old child in Saudi Arabia's southern Najran region near the Yemen border on August 6, 2026.
- Saudi military identified the wounded as seven Saudi nationals, one Yemeni, two Egyptians, and one Pakistani expat, with spokesman Turki al-Malki calling the attacks "a flagrant violation of the Customary International Humanitarian Law."
- Houthis earlier struck Saudi-backed Yemeni government camps in Marib and Hadramout provinces with ballistic missiles and drones, killing at least 30 troops and wounding at least 50, per Yemeni officials speaking anonymously.
- Yahya Saree, a Houthi brigadier general, claimed "hundreds" of Saudi-backed troops were killed or injured and called on Yemenis to "strike Saudi troop concentrations wherever they may be."
- U.S. mission to Yemen condemned the attacks as "yet another example of their terrorism against the Yemeni people" in a post on X.
- The strikes break the April 2022 truce; the Houthis cite Saudi Arabia's air and sea blockade on Yemen since 2015 as justification, and have themselves launched a naval blockade in the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
Why it matters: The back-to-back strikes shatter the April 2022 de facto truce and reopen direct Houthi-Saudi combat on two fronts — civilian casualties inside the Kingdom and missile/drone strikes on Yemeni government forces in Marib and Hadramout. With the U.S. condemning the attacks and the Houthis vowing further retaliation against Saudi troop concentrations, Yemen's stalemated proxy war risks widening into a more active Saudi-Houthi confrontation.
