Iran-backed Houthi rebels strike Yemen's government forces with ballistic missiles, killing at least 53

Three missiles hit a camp in government-controlled Shabwa province that officials say was being used as a training centre for new recruits. Attack on Shabwa province also injures over 200 as military says rebels 'targeted new recruits'; Saudi government agencies tell Riyadh employees to work from home amid Houthi attacks The fighting between the Houthis and Yemen’s Saudi-backed government forces is a widening front in the Iran war that began in February.

The escalating fighting shattered a 2022 ceasefire deal that largely stopped fighting in Yemen's civil war. The Iranian-backed militia struck with ballistic missiles deep in government-held central Yemen, in what appeared to be among the deadliest attacks of the renewed war. Houthi rebels killed at least 53 Yemeni government soldiers in a ballistic missile strike on a military camp Monday, one of the deadliest attacks since fighting surged this summer,...