Yemeni forces counterattack Houthis west of Taiz after Red Sea setbacks

AL-MUKALLA: Yemeni government forces have retaken two villages and a hilltop position west of Taiz after launching a counterattack against Iran-backed Houthi forces, while warplanes struck a gathering of Houthi fighters in the same area, a military official said on Monday. Abdul Basit Al-Baher, deputy head of the Yemeni army’s Moral Guidance Division in Taiz, told Arab News that government troops, backed by local resistance fighters, had attacked Houthi positions in Al-Wazi’yah district over the