Conflicts to Watch in The New Millennium

On 19 April 2018, another series of Saudi killed at least 5 civilians and injured
several others. In response to Saudi Arabia's aggression against Yemen, Houthi
forces hit a "mercenary camp" in Saudi Arabia with artillery and rocket fire (which
killed and wounded some people at the mercenary camp), targeted a power plant
in the Najran region of Saudi Arabia, and targeted an airport in Jizan. Saudi
Arabia later carried out a series of airstrikes in northwestern Sa'ada that
destroyed three houses, as well as an aerial attack in southwestern Yemen that
left 20 people dead. The same day, 2 leaders of Al-Qaeda in Yemen were killed
on Thursday after a security raid was carried out by Yemeni forces in the
province of Abyan. The security sources said that the leaders of al-Qaeda in
Yemen, Murad Abdullah Mohammed al-Doubli, nicknamed "Abu Hamza al-
Batani" and Hassan Baasrei were killed after a raid by security forces in the Al-
Qaeda stronghold. Also known as Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula or AQAP,
Al-Qaeda are primarily active in Yemen. The U.S government believes AQAP to
be the most dangerous al-Qaeda brands.
On 22 April 2018, the Saudi-led coalition carried out airstrikes on a wedding
in Hajjah, a town in northwestern Yemen; the airstrikes left at least 33 people
dead and 41 wounded. The attack consisted of two missiles that hit several
minutes apart. Most of the people killed were women (including the bride at the
wedding) and children. Ambulances were not able to get to the site of the attack
at first, because, as jets were continuing to fly overhead after the attack, there
were concerns about further airstrikes.
Houthi media outlets announced on 23 April 2018 that a Houthi political leader
had been killed in an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition the previous
week. Additionally, an aerial attack by Saudi Arabia in Hajjah killed 18 people
and wounded 13 others, while another airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition in
Saada killed at least three people and wounded two others. The same day,
Yemen announced that it had fired two missiles at an oil facility in Jizan, a Saudi
province near the Saudi-Yemeni border.
On 25 April 2018, Houthi forces destroyed a tank of the Saudi-led coalition on
the western coast of Yemen. It was also reported by Yemen's official news
agency that 13 Saudi led troops had been killed or wounded in several parts of
Yemen. Later in April 2018, another series of Saudi airstrikes across a period of
24 hours killed at least eight civilians across Yemen, seven of whom were
women and children. At least 10 other civilians were injured as a result of the
airstrikes.
On 6 May 2018, a Yemeni ballistic missile hit Saudi military positions in Asir. Two
Saudi troops were also killed by Houthi snipers in the Haskul military base in
Jizan. At around the same time, Saudi Arabia was bombing various parts of
northern Yemen: a Saudi bombing in Sa'ada killed five members of a family, and
Saudi air raids in Hudaydah left two civilians killed. Saudi Arabia also bombed
Hajjah, which ended up being bombed 10 times over a 24-hour period.
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