Saudi-Backed Forces Rush to Reverse Houthi Gains as Group Strikes Aramco Sites

Saudi-backed Yemeni forces have launched a broad counteroffensive to reverse Houthi advances, while the group has struck oil facilities and airports.

• President Rashad al-Alimi announced Operation Yemen Dawn, saying it was designed to end the "Houthi coup."
• The Houthis declared they had targeted Saudi Aramco facilities in response to Saudi airstrikes on Sana'a.
• The Houthis captured the coastal town of Mocha and islands in the Bab al-Mandab strait by 16 September.
• On 7 October the Houthis targeted Aden airport, and the coalition said it intercepted a missile fired towards Riyadh.
• Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation said Houthi attacks on Abha and King Khalid airports killed three people and wounded 36.
• On the third day of Operation Yemen Dawn, fighting intensified across fronts in Taiz, Marib, and Al-Jawf.
• The General Authority of Civil Aviation said the Abha victims were Moroccan and Algerian residents and the King Khalid victim was a Sudanese resident.
• The Arab coalition said it destroyed the ballistic missile launch platform used in the Houthi attack on Riyadh.
• Coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki said the launch platform was destroyed in Sanaa as the Houthis prepared an imminent attack.
• Yemeni government forces announced full control over the Khubub front as part of Operation Dawn of Yemen.
• The Yemeni Armed Forces said 2,103 targeting operations neutralized 1,860 Houthi fighters and destroyed hundreds of pieces of equipment.
• Saudi civil aviation authorities said the three civilians killed in the Houthi airport attacks included two women.