FILE: Yemen - March 2024 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of cityscape, national flag of Yemen

FILE: Sanaa, Yemen - July 9, 2022 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
2. Various of national flag of Yemen

FILE: Sanaa, Yemen - March 26, 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
3. Various of traffic

FILE: Yemen - 2022 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
4. Various of Mayun Island in Bab al-Mandab Strait, armed soldiers on vehicles

FILE: Yemen - Feb 2024 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
5. Sea, port facilities
6. Various of ships at sea

Sanaa, Yemen - Sept 14, 2026 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdulghani Al-Zubaidi, military analyst (starting with shot 6/ending with shot 8):
"I believe that the remaining battles inside Yemen, no matter how much Saudi Arabia mobilizes, supports, or deploys forces that it considers support for the Yemeni government, are, from my military assessment, fronts that are not influential nor effective. Yet, clashes may continue there, and there may be a war of attrition."

FILE: Sanaa, Yemen - Feb 1, 2026 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
8. Various of displaced people, tents in camp

FILE: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Dec 2022 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
9. Aerial shots of national flag of Saudi Arabia; cityscape; traffic

Yemen's west coast has seen a sharp escalation in fighting between Houthi forces and Saudi-backed government troops, with hundreds of casualties reported and military experts warning of a potential war of attrition near the strategic Bab al-Mandab strait.

The clashes are concentrated along the Red Sea coast toward Bab al-Mandab, the strait linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden and a key shipping route between Asia and Europe.

The Saudi-backed National Resistance Forces, which support the Yemeni government, say they lost around 500 fighters and that nearly 1,500 others were wounded in fighting between August 9 and September 10.

The commander of the National Resistance Forces has announced the formation of the Tihama Resistance Force as an independent unit under the Joint Operations Command of the Saudi-led coalition. He said its mission is to retake coastal areas lost by forces opposing the Houthis.

Military experts say the restructuring of forces could pave the way for a new phase of fighting along the western coast, with the area potentially becoming a prolonged war of attrition.

"I believe that the remaining battles inside Yemen, no matter how much Saudi Arabia mobilizes, supports, or deploys forces that it considers support for the Yemeni government, are, from my military assessment, fronts that are not influential nor effective. Yet, clashes may continue there, and there may be a war of attrition," said Abdulghani Al-Zubaidi, a military analyst in Sanaa.

On the ground, fighting was reported in Dhubab, near Bab al-Mandab, between government forces and the Houthis. The Houthis said Saudi aircraft carried out dozens of airstrikes in several provinces. Government sources said five of those strikes targeted the Bab al-Mandab area alone.

Meanwhile, the Yemeni government says it has told UN envoy Hans Grundberg that it remains ready for peace and stressed that navigation through Bab al-Mandab is safe. The UN says it is continuing efforts to reduce tensions and bring the parties back to the political process.