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Yemen: Government Forces Seize Full Control of Strategic Hays District
(MENAFN) Yemeni government troops captured dozens of Houthi fighters during fighting in the western province of Al Hudaydah on Saturday, according to a senior official at the country's Information Ministry.
Fayyad al-Numan, assistant undersecretary at the ministry, said government forces took "dozens of members of the terrorist Houthi militia" prisoner during clashes in the Al-Jarahi district of southern Al Hudaydah. Activists circulated images on social media that they said depicted the captured Houthi fighters in government custody. The Houthis had made no public response to the claim as of 1400 GMT.
Hours later, Yemen's state-run news agency cited an unnamed military source announcing a bigger battlefield gain: government troops had "fully liberated Hays district in Al Hudaydah province from the control of the Iran-backed Houthi militia after retaking and securing the district's rural areas."
The same source told SABA that government units also pushed Houthi fighters back around the Al-Barh junction in western Taiz, retaking territory as the group's fighters withdrew in disarray, leaving behind dozens of dead and wounded.
Hays sits at a critical crossroads, linking Al Hudaydah and Taiz provinces in western Yemen with Ibb province in the center of the country, according to a correspondent on the ground.
Separately, the National Resistance Forces — a military faction aligned with the government — said its air-defense units downed two Houthi attack drones earlier Saturday over the southwestern province of Taiz.
The gains come as fighting intensifies on multiple fronts across Yemen, part of a wave of tit-for-tat attacks that erupted in July and shattered a stretch of relative quiet that had held since the UN-brokered truce of April 2022.
The Houthis have held Sanaa and a swath of other cities since seizing the capital in September 2014. The internationally recognized government, along with its allied forces, continues to control large areas in the country's south, east and west.
Fayyad al-Numan, assistant undersecretary at the ministry, said government forces took "dozens of members of the terrorist Houthi militia" prisoner during clashes in the Al-Jarahi district of southern Al Hudaydah. Activists circulated images on social media that they said depicted the captured Houthi fighters in government custody. The Houthis had made no public response to the claim as of 1400 GMT.
Hours later, Yemen's state-run news agency cited an unnamed military source announcing a bigger battlefield gain: government troops had "fully liberated Hays district in Al Hudaydah province from the control of the Iran-backed Houthi militia after retaking and securing the district's rural areas."
The same source told SABA that government units also pushed Houthi fighters back around the Al-Barh junction in western Taiz, retaking territory as the group's fighters withdrew in disarray, leaving behind dozens of dead and wounded.
Hays sits at a critical crossroads, linking Al Hudaydah and Taiz provinces in western Yemen with Ibb province in the center of the country, according to a correspondent on the ground.
Separately, the National Resistance Forces — a military faction aligned with the government — said its air-defense units downed two Houthi attack drones earlier Saturday over the southwestern province of Taiz.
The gains come as fighting intensifies on multiple fronts across Yemen, part of a wave of tit-for-tat attacks that erupted in July and shattered a stretch of relative quiet that had held since the UN-brokered truce of April 2022.
The Houthis have held Sanaa and a swath of other cities since seizing the capital in September 2014. The internationally recognized government, along with its allied forces, continues to control large areas in the country's south, east and west.
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