{"id":939182,"date":"2026-10-19T20:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/939182\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T20:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:02:11","slug":"houthi-attack-on-yemeni-government-forces-kills-53-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/939182\/","title":{"rendered":"Houthi attack on Yemeni government forces kills 53: officials"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fifty-three people were killed and 200 were injured in an attack on Monday by the Iran-aligned Houthis<\/a> on a government security forces training camp in \u200cYemen’s Shabwa province, according to the local authority, as fighting in the country intensifies.<\/p>\n

Video verified by Reuters from Shabwa province showed injured people and bloodied bodies scattered across the ground.<\/p>\n

The \u200bHouthis and the internationally recognized government, which is \u200bbacked by a Saudi-led coalition, have been trading attacks since the group advanced in September toward territory near the Bab \u200bel-Mandeb Strait, a shipping chokepoint at the mouth of the \u2060Red Sea.<\/p>\n

Local authority \u2060sources who spoke on condition of \u200canonymity said the Houthis had launched three ballistic missiles at security forces during a training exercise.<\/p>\n

WATCH | How Yemen plays into the Mideast war:\"\"<\/p>\n

How the Houthi-Saudi Arabia conflict plays into broader Middle East war<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia has recently been rocked by attacks from Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The weekend strikes came in response to Saudi’s own ongoing attacks on Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen, which resumed in July amid the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran. Analyst Sina Toossi explains how the conflict between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis plays into the broader war in West Asia.<\/p>\n

Shabwa, an energy-rich province in southcentral coastal Yemen overlooking the Gulf of Aden, is home to the \u2060Balhaf liquefied natural gas facility, Yemen’s largest industrial investment.<\/p>\n

Government forces this month began a campaign aimed at recapturing areas controlled by the Houthis, recovering ground near the \u200cstrait, while the group besieges Taiz<\/a>, the last major urban stronghold of anti-Houthi forces in the southern highland area of Yemen.<\/p>\n

The conflict in Yemen<\/a> has become another frontline in the wider U.S.-Israeli \u200bwar on Iran as the Houthis have escalated their attacks on Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest \u2060crude exporter, targeting Riyadh’s international airport and the state oil company Saudi Aramco.<\/p>\n

Amid the Houthi attacks, the organizers of Saudi Arabia’s flagship investment conference announced on Monday that they were postponing the event until next year.<\/p>\n

The four-day Future Investment Initiative Conference, dubbed “Davos in the Desert,” was set to take place in the capital, Riyadh, from Oct. 26 to 29. “We will announce the new 2027 dates very soon,” the organizers said in a written statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

War \u2060broke out in Yemen in 2014 when the Houthis seized the capital \u2060Sanaa, \u2060driving the government south. \u200bA Saudi-led military intervention the following year led to a bloody stalemate until the \u200bsides agreed a \u20602022 truce that held until this year.<\/p>\n

Yemen is already one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with aid agencies warning of rapidly deteriorating conditions there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-939182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}