Missile strikes intensify separate fronts in Yemen, Lebanon and Russia
Strikes around Marib, southern Lebanon and a rocket plant in Samara show three wars pressing deeper into populated areas, industrial targets and the infrastructure that sustains each front.
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Marib hit as Yemen’s government warns of escalation
Yemen’s government said Marib was struck on Saturday by four ballistic missiles and four drones, and that the Mail al-Saila displacement camp on the city’s edge was hit as well. The information ministry called the attacks an escalation that threatens lives, and Al Jazeera verified footage of Saturday’s destruction. Marib governorate officials said a fifth ballistic missile injured one person later in the day and a sixth was fired overnight into Sunday. The fighting has also spread to the Maqbanah front west of Taiz and to Jabal al-Zuhayb. Government sources said at least 30 government soldiers were killed in Houthi attacks in early August, described as the deadliest single episode in years. UN Special Envoy Hans Grundberg had warned that Yemen faces its highest risk of a return to full-scale war since the April 2022 truce. The sequence places residential and displaced populations inside the same strike pattern as the wider front expansion.[1]
Eleven killed in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon
Lebanese authorities said 11 people were killed in Israeli strikes in the south. Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said the seven killed at a house near Ansar were civilians; the Israeli military said it had targeted a Hezbollah commander. The health ministry said a second round of strikes the same day on the town of Deir al-Zahrani killed four people and wounded five. The Israeli military said it had killed Ali Samir al-Haj Hassan, whom it described as a battalion commander in the Radwan Force, and that his family were harmed because he used them as human shields. President Joseph Aoun called the strikes a repeated breach of the framework announced in June. The parties’ accounts have not been independently verified. The day’s toll ties a residential house and a second town to a command-target claim, leaving civilian harm and military intent in unresolved conflict.[2]
Ukraine hits a Roscosmos rocket plant in Samara
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that Ukraine had struck the Progress Centre rocket facility, part of Roscosmos, and the Savasleyka air base with domestically produced Flamingo cruise missiles. Both targets lay far from the Ukrainian border. Samara’s mayor, Ivan Noskov, acknowledged that air defences had responded to a massive attack. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said a transfer of US weapons and ammunition to Kyiv would do serious harm to relations with both countries, and asked Washington and Ankara for an explanation. The Samara strike carried Ukraine’s campaign into industrial capacity far behind the front. In Marib and southern Lebanon, attacks reached a displacement camp, houses and towns close to front-line populations. Missile and strike systems thus placed military pressure on civilian sites and the infrastructure that supports three separate conflicts.[1], [2], [3]
