Houthis Continue Warfare

According to official reports by the Yemeni government in Aden, about 130 civilians were killed or wounded by fire and landmines of the Iranian-backed Houthi militia in Taiz since the end of the truce in Yemen in early October. The United Nations Security Council condemned the October 21 Houthi attack on the Yemeni oil port of Al-Daba using drones. Four days later, Yemeni security authorities closed the port of Mukalla after monitoring drones believed to be affiliated with the Houthi militia. And in the closing remarks of the Arab League Summit in Algiers, the President of the Arab League explained that recent developments in Yemen are clear examples of “negative and detrimental regional interferences in Arab affairs”–an indirect way of condemning the Iranian regime for its military intervention via the Houthis.