📰 1 source 7 articles · 3 Nov 2026, 16:15 → 50 minutes ago

Yemeni Interior Ministry: 21 IRGC and Hezbollah experts support Houthi operations

Yemen's internationally recognized government's Interior Ministry announced that 21 experts from Iran's Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah are taking part in managing and supporting Houthi military operations, distributed across six Yemeni governorates including Sanaa, Saada and Hodeidah. The ministry said their specializations include operations management and command and control, and that they train Houthis to strike ships.

📍 Where things stand: The matter remains at the level of successive announcements by Yemen's Interior Ministry, with no official responses from Iran, Hezbollah or the Houthis in these reports.

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3 Nov 2026, 16:15 The Interior Ministry in Yemen's government announced that 21 experts from Iran's Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah are participating in managing and supporting the Houthi militia's military operations, in a direct accusation that Tehran and Hezbollah are intervening in the Yemeni conflict.
3 Nov 2026, 16:20 Yemen's Interior Ministry said the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah experts are distributed across six Yemeni governorates, without further details on the experts' identities, the nature of their tasks or the specific governorates.
3 Nov 2026, 16:21 Yemen's Interior Ministry specified that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah experts are deployed in Sanaa, Saada and Hodeidah.
3 Nov 2026, 16:24 Yemen's Interior Ministry announced that the specializations of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah experts in Yemen include operations management and command and control.
3 Nov 2026, 16:24 Lebanon Debate quoted Yemen's Interior Ministry as saying that experts from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah are training the Houthis to strike ships, without further details on the location or timing of the training or the nature of the targeting.
3 Nov 2026, 16:32 According to the article's headline, Yemen's Interior Ministry published a deployment map comprising 7 from Hezbollah and 14 from the Revolutionary Guard, without further details in the available text.