Iran-backed Houthi forces have killed several senior commanders from Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces during intensified fighting across Marib, Lah and al-Jouf. Among the dead were Lt. Col. Hamir Nasser Wardan, commander of the 8th Battalion, 141st Brigade, on the Rajwan front, and Mustafa Hussein al-Aweed al-Marami, commander of the 3rd Battalion, Balaj. Brigadier General Ali Nasser al-Awadali, commander of the 34th Infantry Brigade, was captured alongside several soldiers near al-Sharj after his unit was surrounded and ran out of ammunition. Other casualties include Lt. Col. Muhammad Khatem, Brigadier General Hassan Ali Dokker al-Haddad, head of operations of the 219th Brigade, and Aid Abu Mazda, commander of the 7th Brigade, during fighting in Al-Jouf. Further clashes on November 6 killed several officers in Marib. The latest deaths follow a Houthi ballistic missile attack on a military training camp in Shabwa on October 19, which killed 73 people and wounded more than 200. On November 5, Houthi shelling and sniper fire also killed a woman and wounded 5 others in Taiz.

Iran-backed Houthi forces have killed several senior commanders from Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces during intensified fighting across Marib, Lah and al-Jouf. Among the dead were Lt. Col. Hamir Nasser Wardan, commander of the 8th Battalion, 141st Brigade, on the Rajwan front, and Mustafa Hussein al-Aweed al-Marami, commander of the 3rd Battalion, Balaj. Brigadier General Ali Nasser al-Awadali, commander of the 34th Infantry Brigade, was captured alongside several soldiers near al-Sharj after his unit was surrounded and ran out of ammunition. Other casualties include Lt. Col. Muhammad Khatem, Brigadier General Hassan Ali Dokker al-Haddad, head of operations of the 219th Brigade, and Aid Abu Mazda, commander of the 7th Brigade, during fighting in Al-Jouf. Further clashes on November 6 killed several officers in Marib. The latest deaths follow a Houthi ballistic missile attack on a military training camp in Shabwa on October 19, which killed 73 people and wounded more than 200. On November 5, Houthi shelling and sniper fire also killed a woman and wounded 5 others in Taiz.