Houthis launch deadly attack on presidential palace in Yemen’s Aden
Saudi Arabia, which backs the Yemeni government, blamed Iran for the dramatic escalation in the war with the rebels
The Houthis launched a deadly missile attack on Thursday on the presidential palace in the Yemeni government’s interim capital of Aden, as Saudi Arabia blamed Iran for the recent dramatic escalation in the long-running war.
Saudi Arabia and the internationally recognised government it backs in Yemen have come under sustained Houthi attack of late, shifting the focus of the wider Middle East war that erupted with US-Israeli strikes on Iran in February.
The Iran-backed Houthis have seized swathes of territory along Yemen’s Red Sea coastline in recent weeks, and a government counteroffensive with Saudi air support has so far failed to reverse the gains.
Government military sources in Yemen said at least four people were killed and 10 wounded in Thursday’s strikes on Aden’s Al-Maashiq palace, which also serves as the government’s headquarters in the divided country’s south.
