Saudi Airstrikes in Yemen Reach 760 as US Tightens Staff Travel Inside the Kingdom
Saudi F‑15 and Typhoon jets carried out 28 airstrikes in Yemen over 24 hours from bases in Khamis Mushait and Taif, Yemeni officials say, bringing the total since the latest escalation began to 760. Soon after, the US mission in Saudi Arabia ordered its personnel to seek special approval for trips to Taif and Yanbu because of heightened security concerns.
Saudi air operations over Yemen are intensifying again, and the fallout is beginning to shape how foreign governments move their own people inside Saudi territory.
Yemeni military authorities say Saudi F‑15s and Eurofighter Typhoons launched 28 airstrikes in the past 24 hours against targets in Taiz, Al‑Jawf, and the oil‑rich province of Marib. The aircraft flew from bases in Khamis Mushait and Taif in Saudi Arabia. According to the same Yemeni statement, these latest attacks raise the number of Saudi airstrikes since the current escalation began to 760.
Those locations matter. Taiz has long been a front‑line city, Al‑Jawf a contested northern region, and Marib a key energy hub. Strikes in and around them hit not just fighters and fortifications but the roads, depots, and industrial sites civilians depend on. The reference to Marib as oil‑rich underlines why control of that province has drawn such sustained fire.
As the air campaign builds, the US mission in Saudi Arabia has tightened its own risk posture. It now requires American government personnel to obtain special approval for both official and personal travel to Taif and the Red Sea port of Yanbu, citing heightened security concerns. That means US staff can no longer treat trips to these cities as routine movements inside a partner country.
The new US rules sit alongside broader warnings. US officials have raised the alarm about an escalation of attacks between Yemen’s Houthi movement and Saudi Arabia, and have urged American citizens to avoid travel to the Middle East. The travel curbs on Taif—home to important Saudi air bases used in the Yemen campaign—and Yanbu, a key petrochemical and refining center, signal that Washington sees potential risk around strategic military and energy infrastructure.
For people in Yemen, the 760 recorded airstrikes in this phase of the conflict translate into more displacement, damage to already fragile services, and a greater chance that homes, workshops, and clinics fall within blast zones. For residents and businesses in Saudi cities now under new travel rules, they are a reminder that a war next door can quickly change perceived safety at home.
What comes next will depend on whether there is any move toward talks that could slow or cap the air campaign, how Yemen’s armed groups respond to the latest wave of strikes, and whether other embassies follow the US in restricting internal travel to strategic Saudi locations. A widening set of travel curbs would be one of the clearest signs that the Yemen war’s risks are again spilling over borders.
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- OSINT