🇾🇪 ❌ 🇸🇦 | Yemen War Updates (-ve) | September 8, 2026 (past 7 hours):

🏴‍☠️ Saudi airstrikes and shelling

• Saudi airstrikes targeted Ansarallah positions in the Rabiei area west of Taiz city.

• Saudi airstrikes continued against Ansarallah positions for more than 12 hours before the Yemeni retaliatory strikes.

• Saudi missile and artillery shelling targeted residential villages in the Shada border district of Saada Governorate.

• Saudi aircraft carried out additional airstrikes on Ansarallah positions west of Taiz.

🇸🇦 Strike on Al-Jawf prison

• Five martyrs, including a child, were initially reported after Saudi airstrikes targeted the Central Reformatory in Al-Hazm, Al-Jawf.

• Rescue operations later recovered additional victims from beneath the rubble.

• Civil Defense in Al-Jawf said efforts continue to recover the bodies of 25 inmates trapped under the destroyed prison.

• Later reports said 16 bodies had been recovered from the rubble.

• AnsarAllah authorities accused Saudi Arabia of deliberately targeting civilians and prison visitors during the strike.

🇸🇦 Saudi-backed military operations

• Saudi-backed forces launched an offensive across an approximately 8 km front in southwest Al-Bayda from Hayd Al-Khazan toward Al-Nasifa.

• Saudi-backed mercenaries reportedly destroyed two Ansarallah military vehicles and a bulldozer during fighting on the Maqbanah axis, with casualties reported on both sides.

• Saudi-backed forces continued operations around Hais in Al-Hudaydah Governorate, attempting to advance toward Al-Rabia and Beit Akish near Al-Jarahi District.

• Saudi rocket launchers reportedly targeted the Al-Yatimah area in preparation for another operation.

• Saudi-backed forces warned drivers against using several roads in Marib and Al-Jawf, saying they were being prepared for military bombardment.

🇸🇦 Saudi security measures

• Saudi authorities reportedly activated a public “no-filming” protocol following explosions across southern Saudi Arabia.

• Reports also claimed five people were arrested in Saudi Arabia over social media posts discussing the explosions.

• Reports said air traffic at Abha International Airport was suspended following the missile and drone attacks.

🇺🇸 Regional military developments

• An E-3B AWACS early warning aircraft was reported operating over eastern Saudi Arabia near the Iranian border.

• Reports stated American Patriot air defense systems were attempting to intercept Yemeni missiles heading toward Saudi Arabia.

🇾🇪 Six martyrs, including a child, in Saudi-backed attacks on different areas of Yemen

• Yemen’s Saba News Agency reported an increase in civilian casualties following the latest Saudi-backed attacks in Al-Jawf and Taiz governorates.

• The Saudi attack on the Central Reformatory in Al-Jawf has so far martyred five civilians, including a child, according to AnsarAllah authorities, while rescue efforts continue.

• Another Yemeni civilian was martyred in the village of Al-Hakimah in Taiz Governorate after being shot by a sniper from Saudi-backed forces.

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🇮🇶 | #IraqiResistance | Hezbollah Brigades in Iraq:

Following its criminal aggression against the headquarters of the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq, the ruling family of the Land of the Hijaz continues its crimes against the Yemeni people, as part of the ongoing series of Zionist-American crimes against the peoples opposing American hegemony in the region.

These brutal actions only increase the Yemeni people’s determination to continue along the path of resistance, their resolve to reclaim their rights, and their firm will to break the unjust Saudi blockade.

The Saudi enemy, known for its criminal conduct, has committed a massacre that adds to its long record of crimes by carrying out a brutal bombardment of civilian sites in Al-Hazm District of Al-Jawf Governorate. It continues its aggression against hospitals, roads, mourning halls, and all other vital facilities of life in Yemen, the land of dignity and steadfastness.

As we renew our absolute solidarity with the brotherly Yemeni people in their legitimate defense of their land, we salute the efforts of their sons stationed on the fronts of confrontation and dignity against the Saudi entity and its mercenaries. They have proven to the world that the will of peoples is stronger than aircraft and missiles, and that the truth, no matter how long it takes, will inevitably prevail, with the help of God.

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🇮🇷 | Secretary of Iran's National Security Council:

In recent days, Washington has received a clear warning from Iran's new missiles. The economic war will be met with the establishment of a maritime blockade zone across the Persian Gulf, extending to the area of the blockade. The operational situation regarding U.S. warships and bases has been fundamentally reassessed.

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🎂 | Leader turns 57 today | Happy Birthday.

🇾🇪 🇾🇪 | Yemen Armed Forces statement on targeting Aramco facilities and Khamis Mushait Air Base:

In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful.

“Those who defend themselves after being wronged, there is no blame against them.” God Almighty has spoken the truth.

For twelve years, our dear Yemeni people have been subjected to aggression and a blockade by the criminal Saudi enemy. Over the past three days, the criminal Saudi enemy has launched a brutal and unjust aggression against our people, targeting the governorates of Marib, Al-Bayda, Hodeidah, Taiz, and Al-Jawf with dozens of airstrikes and committing major crimes. The latest was the Al-Jawf crime, which claimed the lives of a large number of inmates at the Central Prison in Al-Hazm city, including women and children among the visitors. This is part of its effort to occupy our country and kill our people in a major and comprehensive escalation serving the American and Israeli enemy.

In response to this brutal aggression and in confronting comprehensive escalation with comprehensive escalation, the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a large-scale and significant military operation targeting Aramco facilities in Abha and Najran, the Economic City, Aramco Jizan, and Khamis Mushait Air Base with dozens of ballistic missiles and drones. The strikes were accurate and direct, by the grace of Allah, and caused significant damage to those facilities.

The Yemeni Armed Forces hold the Saudi enemy responsible for the escalation. Every attack against our country and our people will be met with a decisive response, and we will not hesitate to launch stronger and broader strikes against the criminal Saudi enemy, God willing.

All movements, attacks, and military mobilizations by the Saudi enemy will not intimidate our dear country, Yemen, the land of Islam and Arabism, nor will they weaken the resolve of our believing, free, and fighting people, the people of faith and wisdom. Rather, we will become even more determined to confront every aggression and every attack. Our people stand on the side of truth, while our enemy stands on the side of falsehood. Indeed, falsehood is destined to perish.

We affirm that, with the power and strength of Allah, we will continue our operations against the Saudi depth, target its military mobilizations, and establish the equation of blockade for blockade until the aggression ends and the blockade on our dear country is lifted.

Allah is Sufficient for us, and He is the Best Disposer of affairs. He is the Best Protector and the Best Supporter.

Long live Yemen, free, proud, and independent.

Victory for Yemen and for all free people of the nation.

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📡 🇾🇪 ❌ 🇸🇦 | Columns of smoke fill the skies over Jizan in southern Saudi Arabia after Yemeni forces struck oil facilities in the city.

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📌 | What do Gen. Mohsen Rezaei’s statements about the geography of the battle mean?

According to statements by Mohsen Rezaei, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, about expanding Iran’s maritime control zone to reach the American blockade line in the northern Indian Ocean, Iran is moving toward expanding the geography of the battle.

Iran has not taken these measures until now out of consideration for its relations with some neighboring countries. However, this situation can continue only as long as the benefits outweigh the costs and the resulting damage does not exceed those benefits.

Through this step, Iran aims to prevent oil exports by targeting or disrupting the movement of ships. This aligns with the strategy it announced previously: if Iranian oil cannot be exported through this region, then no other country should be able to export oil through it either.

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🇦🇫 | Using anti-Shia policies to attract American interests, the Taliban have now openly entered a new phase of Shia suppression in Afghanistan. Khatam al-Nabieen Seminary, one of the country’s most important Shia religious and educational institutions and a center of knowledge, faith, and cultural heritage, has reportedly been forcibly evacuated under claims related to its land, while prominent Shia scholars, religious figures, professors, and community leaders have reportedly been detained. This is far more than a land dispute. It is an attack on religious freedom, education, justice, and the rights and dignity of an entire community. No religious or educational institution should be subjected to force without transparency, due process, or the opportunity to defend its rights. We call for justice, accountability, and respect for religious and educational institutions. Stand with Khatam al-Nabieen. Stand against injustice.

#AfghanistanShia

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🇾🇪 💡 | Diversion front south of Hodeidah: Sana’a forces approach Mokha:

Over the past two days, Sana’a forces have made further advances on the western fronts of Taiz Governorate in southwestern Yemen, bringing them close to the junction of the strategic city of Mokha, overlooking the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

Despite attempts by Saudi-backed factions to retake some areas on the fronts of Al-Kadaha, Maqbanah, Jabal Habashi, and Al-Ma’afer, Ansar Allah has maintained its military gains achieved late last week and strengthened them with further advances after heavy fighting with those factions.

One of the results of these battles has been Sana’a forces gaining control over military supply routes between the western Taiz fronts and the western coast, while also establishing fire control over the main supply route linking Aden and Taiz. This followed their advance in the Al-Bireen area of Al-Ma’afer District, southwestern Taiz. The development has raised concerns that the various fronts in western and southern rural Taiz could collapse in the coming days.

The most significant battlefield development was recorded on the Al-Barh axis, southwest of Taiz, where Sana’a forces advanced westward and approached the Al-Rashah Al-A’la area. They also captured important positions around Al-Arish, located about 5 kilometers east of the Mokha junction and about 7 kilometers from Khalid bin Al-Walid Camp, one of the main defensive lines protecting Mokha, the principal stronghold of Tariq Saleh’s forces.

Ansar Allah-affiliated platforms released new footage yesterday evening showing further significant advances across the Maqbanah fronts, including the capture of Hamir Market and other areas east of Jabal Habashi District in western Taiz.

These developments prompted Saudi-backed factions to attempt opening other fronts south of Hodeidah and around Marib in an effort to ease the military pressure on the western Taiz fronts.

The attempts came amid mutual accusations among the factions over responsibility for the military setbacks that led to the loss of several areas overlooking the Bab al-Mandab Strait. Saudi Arabia has sought to control these areas at any cost because of their strategic importance for securing international shipping in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

While Saudi-backed factions said they had fully captured Hays District in southern Hodeidah, despite the fact that Hays city has been under the control of the Aden government for years, the announcement appeared intended to divert attention from the complete loss of the Al-Kadaha front and other western Taiz fronts to Sana’a forces the previous evening.

Al-Kadaha holds strategic importance due to its geographic position between Jabal Habashi, Maqbanah, and Al-Wazi’iyah districts in the governorate’s countryside, as well as its location on one of the fronts overlooking the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

According to local and military sources who spoke to Al-Akhbar, Saudi-backed factions issued several directives ordering their fighters not to use the Taiz-Mokha road, the main artery for their supply movements, whether coming from the Taiz axis or the western coast. This amounts to an implicit acknowledgment of Sana’a forces’ influence over the route.

Contrary to Saudi media reports about “victories” on the Jabal Habashi and Haifan fronts south of Taiz, informed sources confirmed to Al-Akhbar that the areas of Al-Mukazamah and Akad, both within Jabal Habashi District, had fallen under Ansar Allah’s control. All attempts by the factions to retake the strategic Jabal Nu’man and nearby positions also failed.

Meanwhile, Sana’a forces continued advancing toward Al-Bireen, which overlooks major supply routes linking Taiz and Aden. According to the sources, the advance enabled Sana’a forces yesterday to establish complete fire control over the most important main supply routes connecting Aden and Taiz, potentially reducing the military maneuvering options available to Saudi-backed factions on the western Taiz fronts.

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