Houthi missile attacks kill 58 Saudi-backed Yemeni govt forces: source

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Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels launched missile and drone attacks killing at least 58 Yemeni government troops supported by Saudi Arabia. The attacks mark one of the deadliest days in Yemen’s civil war and increase the conflict's ties to the larger US-Israel-Iran confrontation in the region.

Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis killed at least 58 government troops in missile and drone attacks on Thursday, a military source said, in one of the deadliest days of the country's civil war in four years. The attacks come as Yemen is increasingly drawn into the US-Israeli war with Iran, with the rebels stepping up attacks against both government forces and neighbouring Saudi Arabia, a key US ally and supporter of the internationally recognised Yemeni government.