Recent escalating tensions between the Iran-backed group and the Yemeni government have prompted fears that a truce in place since 2022 is nearing collapse. By Pranav Baskar and Shuaib Almosawa Shuaib Almosawa reported from Sanaa, Yemen. The Houthi militant group said on Friday it had launched a drone and missile attack on a military camp of the internationally recognized government in Yemen, escalating fighting that has threatened to reignite the country’s civil war. A coalition led by Saudi Arabia in Yemen has been seeking to oust the Houthis and restore the government since the militia seized control of the capital, Sanaa, in 2014. The government and the Houthis agreed to a cease-fire in 2022.
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Yemen’s health ministry, in a statement carried by state media, said that at least two people had been killed and 14 others wounded in Houthi attacks Friday on civilian areas and displacement camps in Marib.