Yemen front and the region
Bahraini paper: US ambassador rejects IRGC claim; rival accounts on Kharaz camp
A Bahraini paper published a brief report that the US ambassador rejected the IRGC's claim, without the statement's text or time. In Lahj, a pro-Houthi outlet's claim that Kharaz camp has fallen conflicts with an older government denial issued on Saturday evening. We found no newer original statement on the official accounts we were able to check.
Summary
- UnverifiedGulf Daily News reports that the US ambassador in Bahrain called the IRGC claim false and said all drones were intercepted. We could not find the original statement.
- DisputedA pro-Houthi site says Kharaz camp has fallen; Tihama Press republishes a government denial issued on Saturday evening and reports that the area around the camp is calm.
- UnverifiedAn unnamed field source says a Houthi commander in the Ansar Brigades was killed on Saturday on the Jawf front, before this window.
Developments in this window
- UnverifiedBahrain
Bahraini paper: US ambassador rejects IRGC claim, says all drones were intercepted
Gulf Daily News published a brief report saying US Ambassador to Bahrain Stephanie Hallett called the IRGC's claims false and said all drones were intercepted with no damage or injuries. The text is a single sentence that breaks off before the statement and carries no timestamp; 06:06 UTC is when it appeared in Google's index, not when the statement was issued. We could not find the original statement on the embassy account we were able to check, and the report gives neither the number of drones nor the time of interception.
Source: Gulf Daily News - UnverifiedJawf
Field source: Houthi commander in the Ansar Brigades killed in Jawf on Saturday
At 05:48 UTC Al-Mashhad Al-Yemeni quoted an unnamed field source as saying Colonel Abdulhamid Mohsen Abbas al-Dawla, known as Hamid al-Dawla, had been killed, describing him as a commander of the Ansar Brigades in the Jawf axis. The source says he died on Saturday, before this window, without giving a location or circumstances; what is new is the publication of the account. The Houthis have not commented, and we found no second source or funeral announcement.
Source: almashhad.news - DisputedLahj
Pro-Houthi claim that Kharaz camp has fallen meets an older government denial
Between 04:56 and 05:20 UTC the pro-Houthi Yemen News Portal published three reports citing media staff in Tareq Saleh's office as saying Kharaz camp fell to the Houthis, and saying government columns reached Aden after withdrawing from western Lahj. It attributed to his adviser Nabil al-Sufi a tweet conceding that the Bab al-Mandab battle was lost, but we could not find the tweet, so that claim remains unproven. Tihama Press, for its part, republished at 05:07 the Third Hazm Brigade's denial of any clashes, a denial first published on Saturday evening with no newer denial found, and quoted journalist Fares al-Humairi as saying the area around the camp is calm. No independent party has verified the status of the camp.