Yemen's Pro-Government Forces Claim Retaking of Shabwa from Houthis

Marib city hosts 3 million people including nearly 1 million displaced from other parts of Yemen, directly affected by ongoing territorial control battles.

In the seventh year of Yemen's civil war, pro-government forces backed by the UAE and Saudi Arabia announced the recapture of Shabwa province from Houthi fighters after ten days of sustained combat — a shift that carries weight far beyond the battlefield. Shabwa's energy reserves and its role as a corridor to Marib, the government's last major northern stronghold, make it a piece of territory where military maps and human destinies converge. Three million people shelter in Marib, nearly a million of them displaced from Houthi-held lands, and the fate of that city — and the peace negotiations c

Yemen's Pro-Government Forces Claim Retaking of Shabwa from Houthis

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