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Map and timeline by Djordje Djukic and Evan Centanni.
Since the start of October, Yemen's unrecognized "Houthi" government has launched a new campaign to follow up its September takeover of the Red Sea coast. After a similarly fast advance, the Houthis have surrounded the city of Taiz, leaving it inside an ever-tightening pocket internationally-recognized government control.
Meanwhile, the far-fetched campaign to counterattack and take back Yemen from the Houthis has sputtered, making only very limited gains, even as Houthi advances west of Aden threaten to surround opposing fighters at the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. However, the Houthis' strongest enemy, neighboring Saudi Arabia, is assembling a major alliance of regional powers, ostensibly to defend from Houthi missile attacks - but possibly also to back up the faltering internationally-recognized government forces in Yemen.
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