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Displaced Yemenis rest at a temporary shelter in the Dar Saad district of Aden, Yemen, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026, after fleeing Houthi attacks in the western coastal cities of al-Khokha and Mokha.<\/p>\n
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Displaced Yemenis rest at a temporary shelter in the Dar Saad district of Aden, Yemen, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026, after fleeing Houthi attacks in the western coastal cities of al-Khokha and Mokha.<\/p>\n
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Yemeni civilians celebrate while riding in the back of a pickup truck in the Bani Matar district, Yemen, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026, as they follow a convoy carrying Houthi prisoners freed in Mokha on its way to Sanaa following the Houthi takeover of the southern Red Sea port city.<\/p>\n
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This image taken from undated video released by the Houthi-run Al-Masirah television channel on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026, shows Houthi fighters chanting and raising rifles atop a military vehicle in Dhubab district, Taiz province, Yemen, according to the channel. (Al-Masirah TV via AP)<\/p>\n
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This photo provided by the Saudi Press Agency shows damage to a building after a projectile fell in Al-Tawwal, Jazan, Saudi Arabia, on the southern border with Yemen, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)<\/p>\n
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It was a heart-pounding escape. As Houthi rebels backed by Iran swept south along Yemen’s Red Sea coast this week, some residents had little time to flee.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe set out in hysterical panic on a motorcycle, not knowing where we were heading,\u201d Alaa Ali Salem said. \u201cThe roads suddenly became extremely congested, and while I was driving, the motorcycle overturned. My wife, my children and I were all injured.\u201d<\/p>\n
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His family and thousands of others, in numbers leaping by the day, are now displaced as the Arab world’s poorest country faces a potential return to a devastating civil war.<\/p>\n
The Associated Press on Saturday visited some of the newly displaced in Aden, a city under the control of Yemen’s internationally recognized government, as residents opened homes to them.<\/p>\n
Children sprawled in crowded rooms of thin mattresses that were scattered with the few belongings grabbed in haste. A young girl clutched a smartphone. Crutches were propped against a wall. Worn-looking elders napped. A fan stirred the air on a day where temperatures reached into the 90s Fahrenheit (30s Celsius).<\/p>\n
Those fleeing have seen the front line of what the United Nations warns could be a return to a humanitarian catastrophe.<\/p>\n
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The Houthis’ advance to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait at the southern end of the Red Sea threatens a key global shipping alternative to the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran has attacked some vessels during more than six months of war.<\/p>\n
But on the ground in Yemen, the rebels’ offensive means something very different. It could bring the kind of upheaval that killed 150,000 people and caused near-famine before a 2022 ceasefire.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis renewed war should alarm us all,\u201d the U.N. special envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, warned as the Houthis moved south.<\/p>\n
In Aden, a woman was in tears Saturday over what the ensuing chaos meant for her fragile family.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe saw soldiers shouting for a retreat as bullets flew all around, and we had no idea what was happening. One of my sons had a motorcycle, so I told him to take his children and flee,\u201d said Durrah Ali Hassan, who took shelter in a relative\u2019s house.<\/p>\n
She said she was worried about the toll on her pregnant daughter, who already had been bleeding. \u201cI was so worried that roads might get blocked and that my daughter would die.\u201d She was now in a coma at a hospital, her mother said.<\/p>\n
In just days’ time, the International Organization for Migration has revised its number of displaced people by 30,000 more, saying at least 76,000 people now have fled since July as fighting escalated.<\/p>\n
Iraq says attack on Saudi pipeline originated there<\/p>\n
Iraq\u2019s government confirmed that attacks that shut down a key Saudi oil pipeline on Thursday had originated from its territory. An umbrella group of Iran-backed militias in Iraq denied their involvement while praising the Houthis for their \u201congoing battlefield victories against Saudi forces.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Regional officials have told The Associated Press that the Houthis and the Iraqi militias recently coordinated attacks on Saudi oil facilities.<\/p>\n
As the latest events threaten even higher global oil prices, U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran was \u201cprobably\u201d responsible for the pipeline attack, but tried to calm concerns.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Houthis called us, and they don\u2019t want to fight with us,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThey would much prefer not having us involved, and they\u2019re letting most ships go through.\u201d He said his administration has had \u201cdiscussions\u201d with the Houthis, but the White House didn\u2019t say when. His administration engaged in at least one round of talks in May 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are not in war with Saudi Arabia, and the Houthis have their own problems,\u201d Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told India Today TV on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in India.<\/p>\n
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The Houthis are putting further pressure on neighboring Saudi Arabia, which backs the Yemen government fighting the rebels. While the Houthis have said they are only targeting Saudi shipping, oil markets remain wary.<\/p>\n
\u200eLate on Saturday, the Saudi civil defense said a projectile fell in Al-Tawwal governorate near the border with Yemen along the Red Sea, injuring two people and damaging a mosque and several other buildings. The statement blamed the Houthis. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.<\/p>\n
Iran says regional countries meet Monday on the strait<\/p>\n
As global shipping becomes even more challenged, Iran said a regional meeting is planned Monday between the foreign ministers of Gulf countries about talks between Tehran and Oman \u2014 located on the other side of the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 on managing shipping there.<\/p>\n
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Commercial ship traffic remains low on what had been considered an international waterway before the war. Iran has expressed interest in having ships pay fees for transit. It has said traffic into the Persian Gulf would pass through Iranian waters, while the outbound route would pass partly through Iranian waters and partly through Oman\u2019s.<\/p>\n
But Iran has said reaching an agreement with Oman on the strait doesn\u2019t mean it will open for shipping.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe waterway would be opened up on the condition that the U.S. will terminate its blockade,\u201d Iran’s president told the Indian broadcaster. The U.S. military on Saturday said its forces had redirected 100 commercial vessels over the past 60 days.<\/p>\n
Bahrain, however, said it will not attend any group meeting including Iran before the restoration of diplomatic relations between the countries.<\/p>\n
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Anna and Frankel reported from Jerusalem and Abdul-Zahra from Baghdad. Associated Press writers Jill Lawless and Darlene Superville in Dublin and Samy Magdy in Cairo contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Displaced Yemenis rest at a temporary shelter in the Dar Saad district of Aden, Yemen, Saturday, Sept. 12,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[145,150300,31231,150827,87516,23681,59373,59371,86205,61262,82,84,83,87369],"class_list":["post-434439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-donald-trump","tag-hans-grundberg","tag-iran","tag-iraq-iran-yemen-saudi-arabia","tag-masoud-pezeshkian","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","tag-product-32505-ap-online-middle-east-news","tag-product-46986-ap-online-top-stories","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}