# A besieged city could shift the course of Yemen’s war

https://mins.news/en/video/103808

- Reuters, 2026-10-16 22:02 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl2wf9crIK0

> Houthi forces have surrounded Taiz by severing its main road south to Aden. The city is a key front in Yemen’s renewed civil war, and the cutoff has displaced many people and deepened the humanitarian crisis.

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