Houthi attacks killed at least 30 Yemeni troops this week. Will the Saudi-led coalition announce new strikes in Yemen before Aug 12?

Fighting between Yemen's Saudi-backed government forces and Iran-aligned Houthi rebels escalated sharply in early August 2026, with Houthi missile, drone and ground attacks killing roughly 30 Saudi-backed Yemeni troops in the days before Aug. 12. In response, the Saudi-led coalition that has backed Yemen's internationally recognized government since 2015 carried out new strikes on Houthi-controlled Hodeidah and the Red Sea island of Kamaran and reinforced government troops along front lines for a possible ground offensive, Al Jazeera reported on Aug. 11. That escalation followed a Houthi ballistic missile and drone attack that killed at least seven people and wounded roughly 30 others in the port city of al-Makha (Mocha) a day earlier, plus separate Houthi drone strikes in Shabwa province that killed Yemeni government soldiers. CNN reported on Aug. 7 that a source close to the Saudi military said the coalition would not 'stand idly by' as Houthi attacks intensified. The escalation is considered the most serious flare-up in Yemen's civil war since a UN-brokered truce took hold in 2022, reignited amid the wider US-Israel-Iran conflict that began earlier in 2026. Predict Six's community had forecast an 88% chance the coalition would announce new strikes, correctly anticipating the outcome.