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“A senior official with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels is warning countries against joining Saudi Arabia in Yemen’s revived civil war, telling The Associated Press on Sunday that his group has assured the Trump administration that it won’t attack U.S. vessels…”

“That's up from just 30,000 in 2015, when Saudi Arabia intervened in the internationally recognized Yemeni government's civil war against the Houthis and imposed a naval blockade.”

“For more than a decade, Saudi Arabia has supported Yemen’s UN-backed government and its forces in the Yemeni Civil War.”

“Two regional officials said preliminary findings suggest Yemeni Houthis initially deployed several drones to bypass defenses before launching a combination of cruise and ballistic missiles toward King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh.”

“Heavy fighting has flared across several Yemeni frontlines for weeks after a dormant civil war reignited as part of broader US-Iran tensions, with Houthis attempting to secure the strategic strait while firing drones and missiles at Saudi targets.”

“Yemeni forces fractured Any ground operation inside Yemen will rely on the disparate coalition of Yemeni fighting factions that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates armed and trained at earlier stages of the civil war when the conflict ground to a bloody…”

“It comes as the US State Department issued a security alert warning Americans in the Middle East that hostilities between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen had the “potential to escalate rapidly”.”

“On Saturday, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi movement, which made major territorial gains along Yemen’s Red Sea coastline after civil war reignited earlier this month, reported carrying out strikes targeting the Saudi capital Riyadh alongside a major petroleum…”

“But behind the latest fighting lies a hidden toll from this civil war.”

“He was the internationally recognized president of Yemen who led a fractured government mostly from exile for eight years as the country descended into civil war and famine before stepping down in 2022.”

“Inside the movement reigniting Yemen's civil war The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, are an Iran-aligned political, military movement controlling most of northwestern Yemen and the country's main population centers.”

“Civil war broke out when Houthi rebels seized Yemen’s capital, Sana’a, in 2014, prompting a Saudi-led military intervention the following year, but a UN-brokered truce in 2022 had brought relative calm.”

“The US military campaign in Iran, which has widened into a regional conflict since it began in February, has reignited Yemen’s civil war and a decade-long conflict between the Tehran-backed Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia.”

“The group exploited the chaos of the 2011 Arab Spring to oust the internationally recognised government from Sanaa in 2014, beginning the devastating Yemeni civil war.”

“The Iran-aligned Houthis have been fighting Saudi Arabia for more than a decade as part of the Yemen civil war.”