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...
Yemeni customs authorities have intercepted Houthi-bound drone equipment at the Al-Wadiah border crossing in Hadramout and the Aden Free Zone, exposing a procurement effort involving heavy aerial platforms, fibre-optic control systems and components for local assembly. &n...
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...
The Houthis have targeted Mocha and its port for a fourth consecutive day, most recently firing two ballistic missiles at the port’s marine berth. The campaign began on August 9 with a large-scale missile and drone assault on military positions, civilian areas and infrast...
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...
Six people were killed and ten others wounded on Tuesday after the Houthis repeatedly attacked the commercial vessel Tehama (IMO: 1031329) while it was sailing through the Bab al-Mandab Strait, according to the Yemeni Coast Guard. The maritime attack coincided with a wider H...
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 UN Security Council expressed concern over heightened tensions in Yemen but avoided directly addressing recent Houthi attacks in Marib, Hadramawt and Hudaydah. In a press statement issued on August 7, the Council condemned unauthorised aircraft landings at Sana’...
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. ...
The newly signed Makkah Joint Defense Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan could face an early test from an Iran-linked, multi-front threat involving the Houthis in Yemen and Iraqi militias operating under the supervision of Iran’s Islamic Revolut...
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...
