{
 "tracker": "Yemen War: Live Tracker",
 "last_check": "2026-10-06T04:14:00Z",
 "credit": "The Field, thefieldreporters.com",
 "entries": [
  {
   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "when": "5 Oct",
   "label": "claimed",
   "track": "fighting",
   "text": "Yemen's government said it had begun a \"strategic offensive\" on Sanaa and had retaken Dhubab and Mocha on the Red Sea coast. The Houthis denied the Dhubab announcement. The Houthi-run Saba news agency denied reports that government and coalition troops are advancing.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "label": "Al Jazeera, 5 October 2026 (includes its control map)",
     "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/5/yemen-war-escalates-whats-the-latest-on-the-battlefield"
    },
    {
     "label": "The National, 5 October 2026",
     "url": "https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/gulf/2026/10/05/yemen-government-forces-claim-bab-al-mandeb-gains-as-saudi-coalition-says-100-jets-join-houthi-offensive/"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "when": "5 Oct",
   "label": "claimed",
   "track": "fighting",
   "text": "The Saudi-led coalition said it joined the offensive with about 100 warplanes and destroyed 324 \"high-value\" Houthi targets. The Houthis said Saudi air strikes killed a female student in Sanaa governorate. Neither claim is independently verified.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "label": "The National, 5 October 2026",
     "url": "https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/gulf/2026/10/05/yemen-government-forces-claim-bab-al-mandeb-gains-as-saudi-coalition-says-100-jets-join-houthi-offensive/"
    },
    {
     "label": "The New Arab, 5 October 2026",
     "url": "https://newarab.com/news/yemen-army-begins-sanaa-offensive-iran-warns-against-new-war"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "when": "5 Oct",
   "label": "reported",
   "track": "fighting",
   "text": "A military source told Al Jazeera that government forces attacked Houthi positions on the Raghwan front north of Marib, with air raids near Mount Helan. The government army says it \"neutralised\" 1,747 Houthi fighters in 1,122 operations; Al Jazeera notes these figures could not be independently verified.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "label": "Al Jazeera, 5 October 2026 (includes its control map)",
     "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/5/yemen-war-escalates-whats-the-latest-on-the-battlefield"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "when": "5 Oct",
   "label": "reported",
   "track": "fighting",
   "text": "Al Jazeera's Yemen bureau chief, Saeed Thabet, said the government's advances on the coast, coming soon after the announcement of its offensive, were a way of showing it was serious about reversing Houthi gains. The government was also trying to reverse Houthi gains around Taiz. This is his analysis, not a verified finding.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "label": "Al Jazeera, 5 October 2026: government aims for Sanaa, but defeating the Houthis will be a challenge",
     "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/5/yemeni-govt-forces-aim-for-sanaa-but-houthi-defeat-will-be-a-challenge"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "when": "5 Oct",
   "label": "claimed",
   "track": "fighting",
   "text": "The government spokesman said forces had also taken Dhubab airport and cut the road linking Dhubab with Mocha, and government leaders said Houthi forces were surrounded in the area. The Houthi-run Al Masirah TV confirmed that attacks on Sanaa had taken place. Neither the control claims nor the \"surrounded\" claim is independently verified.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "label": "The National, 5 October 2026",
     "url": "https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/gulf/2026/10/05/yemen-government-forces-claim-bab-al-mandeb-gains-as-saudi-coalition-says-100-jets-join-houthi-offensive/"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-05",
   "when": "5 Oct",
   "label": "reported",
   "track": "fighting",
   "text": "A defence analyst quoted by Al Jazeera said the Houthis \"are going to keep pushing in Taiz and Marib\" and have been able to push in all directions at once, while government forces have been better on the defensive in Taiz. This is the analyst's view, not a verified finding.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "label": "Al Jazeera, 5 October 2026: government aims for Sanaa, but defeating the Houthis will be a challenge",
     "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/5/yemeni-govt-forces-aim-for-sanaa-but-houthi-defeat-will-be-a-challenge"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-04",
   "when": "4 Oct",
   "label": "claimed",
   "track": "fighting",
   "text": "Rashad al-Alimi, chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council, said he had ordered the armed forces to launch operations \"until the country is liberated from the Houthis\". The coalition said it would give full operational support.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "label": "Al Jazeera, 5 October 2026 (includes its control map)",
     "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/5/yemen-war-escalates-whats-the-latest-on-the-battlefield"
    },
    {
     "label": "CNN, 4 October 2026",
     "url": "https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/04/middleeast/yemen-offensive-houthis-intl"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-04",
   "when": "4 Oct",
   "label": "reported",
   "track": "fighting",
   "text": "Military sources told Reuters the Houthis had advanced on hilltops near Taiz over the previous 48 hours, along the last road to Aden. AFP quoted four security sources saying the Houthis had cut the supply route linking Taiz with Aden.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "label": "Al Jazeera, 5 October 2026 (includes its control map)",
     "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/5/yemen-war-escalates-whats-the-latest-on-the-battlefield"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-04",
   "when": "4 Oct",
   "label": "claimed",
   "track": "fighting",
   "text": "The Houthis claimed a strike on an Aramco energy site and said Saudi Arabia carried out 106 air and missile strikes in 24 hours. The coalition dismissed a Houthi claim of an attack on Riyadh as misleading.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "label": "CNN, 4 October 2026",
     "url": "https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/04/middleeast/yemen-offensive-houthis-intl"
    },
    {
     "label": "Al Jazeera, 4 October 2026: Houthis claim strike on Aramco site",
     "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/4/houthis-claim-strike-on-saudi-energy-facility-as-yemen-fighting-intensifies"
    },
    {
     "label": "Al Jazeera, 4 October 2026: coalition dismisses Houthi claim of Riyadh attack",
     "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/4/houthi-claims-of-targeting-riyadh-are-misleading-saudi-led"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-10-04",
   "when": "4 Oct",
   "label": "reported",
   "track": "fighting",
   "text": "France 24 reports that three Yemeni military sources confirmed Houthi control of the supply route and that the Houthis had effectively encircled Taiz. The city itself remains under government control, and has long been besieged from the north, east and west.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "label": "France 24, 4 October 2026",
     "url": "https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20261004-yemen-leader-announces-counter-offensive-as-houthis-cut-off-supply-route-besieged-city-taiz"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-30",
   "when": "Late Sep",
   "label": "reported",
   "track": "diplomacy",
   "text": "UN envoy Hans Grundberg met the Houthis' chief negotiator in Muscat to try to prevent further escalation. Reported topics were reopening Houthi-held ports and Sanaa airport, reconstruction and a timeline for foreign forces to leave. A Houthi drone strike killed four Bahraini members of the coalition. Prince Faisal met US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on 29 September.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "label": "Council on Foreign Relations, Yemen tracker",
     "url": "https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/war-yemen"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-18",
   "when": "18 September 2026",
   "label": "reported",
   "track": "diplomacy",
   "text": "The UN Security Council condemned Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia and on shipping in the Red Sea, demanded that the Houthis stop, and expressed solidarity with Saudi Arabia. It also condemned Houthi advances near the Bab al-Mandab strait. The same day, the Houthis said Saudi Arabia had carried out 26 attacks on areas they control in 24 hours. Saudi Arabia said one person was killed in Taif after a Houthi drone was intercepted, and Houthi-linked media reported deaths from Saudi attacks in Taiz and Abs.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "label": "UN Security Council press statement, September 2026",
     "url": "https://press.un.org/en/2026/sc16458.doc.htm"
    },
    {
     "label": "Al Jazeera, 18 September 2026",
     "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/18/houthis-accuse-saudi-arabia-of-launching-26-strikes-in-24-hours"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-10",
   "when": "10 Sep",
   "label": "reported",
   "track": "fighting",
   "text": "Al Jazeera reported that on 10 September the Houthis took the port of Mocha as government forces withdrew, with three Yemeni government sources confirming it to Reuters. Council member Tariq Saleh called the move a \"tactical withdrawal\". The Houthis then moved south toward Dhubab, and later that month captured key islands in the Bab al-Mandab strait and about 150 km of Red Sea coastline, according to Al Jazeera.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "label": "Al Jazeera, 10 September 2026: Houthis seize Mocha",
     "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/10/yemens-houthis-seize-strategic-red-sea-city-of-mocha"
    },
    {
     "label": "Al Jazeera, 5 October 2026: government forces report recapture of Mocha",
     "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/5/yemen-forces-claim-to-seize-dhubab-sites-near-bab-al-mandeb-from-houthis"
    },
    {
     "label": "Al Jazeera, 5 October 2026 (includes its control map)",
     "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/5/yemen-war-escalates-whats-the-latest-on-the-battlefield"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-08",
   "when": "Early Sep",
   "label": "reported",
   "track": "fighting",
   "text": "Al Jazeera reported that the Houthis had launched a major offensive through western Taiz and southern Hodeidah toward Mocha and the Bab al-Mandab strait, and that government forces appeared to have absorbed the initial shock and widened the fighting across several fronts. Al-Alimi claimed government advances in al-Jawf, al-Bayda, Taiz and Hodeidah, which we have not verified.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "label": "Al Jazeera, 8 September 2026: Yemeni forces launch counteroffensive",
     "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/8/yemeni-forces-launch-counteroffensive-against-houthis-vow-to-retake-sanaa"
    },
    {
     "label": "Al Jazeera, 10 September 2026",
     "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/10/fighting-escalates-in-yemen-houthi-attacks-trigger-alerts-in-saudi-arabia"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-07-15",
   "when": "July",
   "label": "reported",
   "track": "fighting",
   "text": "The 2022 truce collapsed in July. Al Jazeera reports that fighting resumed after government forces struck the Houthi-held Sanaa airport and blocked an aircraft from Iran from landing.",
   "sources": [
    {
     "label": "Al Jazeera, 8 September 2026: Yemeni forces launch counteroffensive",
     "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/8/yemeni-forces-launch-counteroffensive-against-houthis-vow-to-retake-sanaa"
    },
    {
     "label": "Al Jazeera, 5 October 2026 (includes its control map)",
     "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/5/yemen-war-escalates-whats-the-latest-on-the-battlefield"
    }
   ]
  }
 ]
}