The Houthis have intensified attacks on Marib and the port of Mokha, placing the government’s main energy hub and a strategic commercial gateway near Bab al-Mandab under sustained pressure. The escalation reinforces an earlier Sheba Intelligence assessment that the gr...
Intelligence sources told Sheba Intelligence that the Houthis have recently moved protective, detection, decontamination and containment equipment designed for chemical and biological hazards. The activity coincided with the stockpiling of large quantities of dual-use chemicals...
Six ballistic missiles struck Mokha port today, causing a fire and adding to a sustained Houthi campaign involving missiles, drones and explosive boats. The escalation suggests an attempt to weaken government forces on the western coast, disrupt the port and expand the Houthis’ lev...
A new class of combat drone has appeared in the Houthi arsenal, adding a tactical capability that could reshape fighting along Yemen’s active frontlines. On August 11, 2026, Yemeni government forces in Marib recovered an FPV drone reportedly operated by the H...
Drones and drone-directed artillery have become the principal battlefield tools used by Yemeni government forces to counter Houthi concentrations, reinforcements and attempted ground advances. The Houthis, meanwhile, are relying heavily on unmanned aircraft to maintain press...
Recent Houthi military movements around Marib point to an effort to strengthen the group’s position ahead of potential negotiations with Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s internationally recognized government. Rather than an immediate attempt to seize Marib city, the curr...
Editor’s Note: This investigation builds on Sheba Intelligence’s earlier investigation, “Drones Reshape Yemen’s Battlefield: Artillery Eyes and Strategic Firepower on the Saada Border,” which examined how government forces are using tactical drones fo...
The Houthi group expects Sanaa to face a large-scale air attack amid unprecedented preparations at its air-defense positions, according to information obtained by Sheba Intelligence. The group has reportedly deployed air-defense missile systems on Jabal Nuqum, installed rece...
Sources told Sheba Intelligence that air defenses intercepted drones attempting to fly over the presidential palace in Yemen’s interim capital, Aden, amid a widening Houthi escalation across government-held territory. The incident follows an earlier Sheba Int...
Multiple military and social indicators suggest growing pressure on the Houthis’ manpower structure. While the movement’s ideological core is sustaining battlefield losses, parts of its wider non-ideological recruitment and support base are beginning to fr...
The Houthis launched a coordinated assault on Yemen’s western port city of Mocha on Sunday, using missiles, drones and explosive-laden boats to target the commercial port and civilian infrastructure near the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait. The attack caused deaths a...
Video footage from Marib, Al-Dhale, the western coast, and Saada reveals a gradual shift in the Yemeni army’s use of unmanned aerial systems—from conventional reconnaissance to artillery fire control and precision strikes. Analysis of the footage, supported by mi...
The Houthis are preparing to escalate operations along Yemen’s western coast in an effort to project military power near Bab al-Mandab as fighting expands across several fronts. Sheba Intelligence has learned that the group has prepared ground forces for possible a...
Open-source images and footage monitored by Sheba Intelligence indicate a notable increase in the number of Houthi field commanders killed during recent operations on Yemen’s western coast and in Marib and Saada, amid renewed escalation across multiple frontlines. ...
Communications restrictions and conventional air defences disrupted an assault involving 30 drones and nearly ten missiles MARIB — August 7, 2026 A large-scale Houthi attack on Marib failed to reach its main suspected military objectives after local authorities rest...
Intelligence sources have told Sheba Intelligence that several recent maritime attacks targeting vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden were conducted through operational coordination between Yemen’s Houthi movement and Somalia’s Al-Shabaab, indicating that...
Sheba Intelligence has obtained intelligence indicating that the Houthi movement is preparing for a new phase of military escalation focused on Marib Governorate, with oil infrastructure, military installations, and government facilities identified among the priority targets. ...
Coalition forces announced that 11 civilians were injured in Najran following what it described as Houthi terrorist attacks. The development came as a senior Saudi official told Al Hadath that Riyadh had received multiple credible intelligence reports confirming coo...
Political sources told Sheba Intelligence that the United States and its allies are moving toward separating negotiations with Iran from the security file involving Houthi threats to international shipping lanes and regional security. According to the sources, t...
Field sources say the group is clearing residential areas near Al-Hawban as fighting intensifies along routes leading to Yemen’s western coast Houthi authorities have ordered loyalist families to leave homes near frontline areas in Al-Hawban and eastern Taiz, according to field ...
