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Battles intensify in Lahj threatening supply routes to Aden and Bab al-Mandab

Lahj, Yemen ·

Clashes between Houthi forces, government forces and local resistance fighters have spread in Lahj governorate to the areas of al-Maqatra, Tur al-Baha, al-Mudhaba and Ras al-Ara. The fighting threatens the roads linking Taiz and Aden.

Yemen's Houthi movement (Ansar Allah), which controls Sanaa and much of the north, has been fighting government forces and their allies for years, with fronts in the south including Lahj, which lies between Aden and Taiz.

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