Yemeni officials report Houthi attacks strike residential zones in Marib

Yemen’s Information Ministry condemns the Houthi strikes on Marib as a dangerous escalation endangering civilians and worsening humanitarian conditions.

Published On 15 Aug 202615 Aug 2026

According to local authorities, Houthi forces launched multiple strikes on the government‑controlled city of Marib, striking residential neighbourhoods.

The provincial authority reported that four ballistic missiles and four drones hit the city on Saturday, causing several injuries and damaging homes, vehicles and other property.

A fifth ballistic missile fired later the same day wounded one person, Marib governorate officials said on X.

Early on Sunday, officials added that a sixth ballistic missile was launched toward Marib during the night.

The attacks were described as part of an “ongoing assault” that endangers civilians, displaced‑person camps and residential areas.

Marib shelters the largest concentration of internally displaced people in Yemen, with over two million of the roughly five million Yemenis displaced by the war residing there.

Video footage verified by Al Jazeera showed the devastation left after Saturday’s strikes.

Yemen’s Ministry of Information posted on X that the continued targeting of Marib’s densely populated districts constitutes a dangerous escalation that threatens lives and deepens suffering.

The strikes on Marib coincided with fighting further south, where Yemeni government forces said drone strikes killed three Iran‑backed Houthi fighters—including field commanders—on the Maqbanah front west of Taiz, wounding several others.

A separate strike destroyed a Houthi military vehicle in Jabal al‑Zuhayb, killing additional combatants, a military source told the Yemeni News Agency (Saba).

The assault is part of a rapid escalation that began in early August, when Houthi missile and drone strikes on military camps in Marib and Hadramout killed at least 30 government soldiers—the deadliest single incident in years.

Days later, Houthi missiles killed at least two civilians and injured 14 in Marib, while further strikes claimed seven lives in the port city of al‑Makha (Mocha).

The Houthis, supported by Iran, control much of northern Yemen, including the capital Sanaa.

United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg warned the UN Security Council on Thursday that Yemen faces its greatest risk of returning to full‑scale war since the UN‑brokered truce of April 2022, as fighting intensifies on multiple fronts and threatens to undo more than four years of relative calm.

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