Houthis target Saudi base as Iran denies involvement in Yemen war

Yemen's Houthis fired dozens of missiles and drones at Saudi military targets Monday, hitting King Khalid Air Base near Khamis Mushait, while Tehran's foreign ministry insisted the group acts entirely on its own. Houthi strikes elsewhere in Yemen killed eight government troops between Marib and Al-Jawf, and the group has seized the Red Sea coast and the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a chokepoint newly critical as the Strait of Hormuz stays snarled.

Trump, meanwhile, mused on social media that Iran wants a deal ‘quickly and badly,’ even as a planned Gulf-Iran meeting over Hormuz got postponed, with Tehran accusing Riyadh of using Yemen as a stalling tactic. The Saudi crown prince separately met the U.S. Centcom chief to discuss the region, days after reports that Trump turned down a personal request from Riyadh to intervene.

The U.N. says 93,864 people have been displaced by the renewed fighting, on top of 17 million Yemenis already struggling to eat. The war that went quiet for four years is fully awake again, tangled into a wider U.S.-Iran standoff nobody involved seems eager to actually end.

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