{"id":21890,"date":"2026-09-15T12:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/15\/yemen-clashes-saudia-aligned-fighters-2000-casualties-western-coast\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:45:18","slug":"yemen-clashes-saudia-aligned-fighters-2000-casualties-western-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/15\/yemen-clashes-saudia-aligned-fighters-2000-casualties-western-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen clashes leave at least 2,000 Saudi-aligned fighters dead or wounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A spokesman for forces under the command of Tareq Saleh has said that in recent clashes on Yemen&#8217;s western coast, at least 2,000 members of these forces have been killed or wounded.<\/p>\n<p>According to Al Mayadeen, the official said that Saudi-backed forces are losing hundreds of their fighters daily in these battles, and that this figure relates only to major clashes.<\/p>\n<p>He added that these forces were also widely targeted by dozens of missiles and suicide drones during their retreat and flight. He also said that Tareq Saleh was directly targeted by 18 drones while present at the command headquarters, and that several other headquarters were also damaged.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, Yemen&#8217;s Ansarullah has announced the start of a large-scale operation on the country&#8217;s western coast. Bab al-Mandab is considered one of the important maritime passages in southwestern Yemen and has always held a strategic position in the country&#8217;s military developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 2,000 Saudi-aligned fighters were killed or wounded in recent clashes on Yemen&#8217;s western coast, a spokesman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}