Yemeni army says strikes helped seize positions in Al Jawf

Yemeni government forces captured positions and commanding terrain in Al Jawf with support from strikes during Operation Dawn of Yemen, their military spokesman said, according to Asharq Al-Awsat.

Colonel Majed Abdullah al-Nuzaili also reported attacks on Houthi movements and reinforcements in Taiz, supported by aircraft and artillery. His account covered fighting on both fronts.

Nuzaili described the strikes in Taiz as “effective”, Asharq Al-Awsat reported, using an Arabic term translated here. The claimed battlefield gains have not been independently verified.

The military spokesman put the number of targeting operations at 1,119. He said they involved warplanes, drones, field artillery and rocket launchers.

The targets included Houthi commanders, troop concentrations, reinforcements, firing positions and supply assets, according to his account. The published summary did not specify the period covered by the figure or name the positions captured in Al Jawf.

Separately, the Saudi-led coalition announced the interception of three drones over Saudi Arabia on 31 October, according to Yemen Monitor. The announcements concerned the Riyadh region, the Eastern Province and southern Saudi Arabia.

Coalition spokesman Major General Turki al-Maliki said debris fell after the Riyadh interception without causing injuries. Authorities were attending the site, Yemen Monitor reported.

Maliki attributed the drone intercepted in southern Saudi Arabia to the Houthis. Yemen Monitor’s account did not identify who launched the aircraft intercepted over Riyadh or the Eastern Province.

The Houthis had disputed a separate coalition announcement a day earlier. On 30 October, military spokesman Yahya Saree denied that the group had carried out an attack into Saudi Arabia that day, Reuters reported.

That denial followed the coalition’s announcement that it had intercepted a Houthi drone in the Mecca region. It concerned that earlier incident, rather than the interceptions announced on 31 October.

Reuters reported that the Iran-aligned group has conducted cross-border attacks targeting Saudi military facilities, airports and energy infrastructure.

The accounts leave the scale of the latest ground gains unresolved: Nuzaili’s published summary identified Al Jawf as the location of the advances but provided no names for the captured positions.