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Airstrikes and clashes in Taiz: military escalation over 48 hours

The Yemeni city of Taiz witnessed a military escalation over 48 hours, including airstrikes targeting Houthi sites, vehicles and gatherings west of the city around Jabal Han, Hada'iq al-Saleh and Wadi al-Dabab, along with raids and clashes between government forces and the Houthis on the southern and western outskirts. Yemen's government forces announced that warplanes carried out concentrated strikes on Houthi reinforcements in the governorate.

📍 Where things stand: Clashes continue in Taiz as government forces announce concentrated airstrikes on Houthi reinforcements, with reports of dozens of dead and wounded on both sides.

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16 Oct 2026, 16:47 Sky News, citing Yemeni sources, reported that airstrikes targeted Houthi sites around Jabal Han, Hada'iq al-Saleh and Wadi al-Dabab west of the city of Taiz in Yemen, without additional information on the extent of damage or losses.
16 Oct 2026, 17:45 Over 48 hours, the city of Taiz witnessed a rapidly escalating field situation, with airstrikes targeting Houthi vehicles and gatherings west of the city around Jabal Han, Hada'iq al-Saleh and Wadi al-Dabab, and violent clashes between government forces and the Houthis on the southern and western outskirts that left dozens dead and wounded on both sides, most of them Houthis according to source estimates. The clashes extended to the Sabr al-Mawadim district in the south of the governorate.
16 Oct 2026, 19:29 Yemen's government forces announced that warplanes carried out concentrated strikes targeting reinforcements of the Houthi militia in Taiz governorate in southwestern Yemen, amid the ongoing clashes between the two sides in the area.

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