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The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Joint Forces have captured Bir Saliba in West Darfur from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Footage from the area shows a SAF fighter equipped with a Webley Schermuly or Norinco Model NARG 38 anti-riot gun.

According to reports, the western front of Taiz collapsed as Houthi forces overran PLC forces and broke the first line of defense. The advance led to the capture of Al Turbah and the operational severance of supply lines to and from Taiz.

Reports of the advance on Jabal Racin began circulating yesterday, followed by reports of Houthi advances along the Al Turbah axis this morning. The situation has left Taiz operationally isolated, while the southern government reportedly declared a new phase of the war with a new offensive.

Heavy fighting and airstrikes continued for a second consecutive day across multiple fronts in Taiz, with Yemeni government forces reporting they contained Houthi attacks. Clashes and artillery exchanges were reported across the northern, eastern, and western approaches to Taiz city, as well as south toward Sami', al-Aqrud, al-Wazi'iyah, and Jabal Rasin.

According to the Yemeni Armed Forces, military operations over a 24-hour period involved hundreds of strikes using combat aircraft, drones, artillery, and missiles across multiple governorates, with the main operational concentration in Taiz. The military claimed that the operations killed or wounded 1,540 Houthi personnel and destroyed numerous vehicles and weapons systems, though these figures have not been independently verified.

Outside Taiz, government forces intercepted three Houthi one-way attack drones over the al-Kassarah front northwest of Ma'rib, while field sources reported the destruction of a Houthi gun in the area.

Ukrainian FP-1 and long-range strike drones hit the Samara oil pumping station in Russia's Samara region, causing a large fire at the facility. The station serves as a key oil hub for receiving, storing, and blending crude oil transported from Tatarstan and Western Siberia, distributing it into pipelines including the Kuibyshev-Tikhoretsk and Druzhba systems. Footage shows the aftermath and the fire at the site, which spans over 216 hectares with 71 storage tanks.

According to Axios, the U.S. military sent two additional Patriot missile batteries in recent weeks to protect oil and gas facilities in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The deployment follows a month of targeted attacks on energy infrastructure by Iran-backed Houthi militias against Saudi facilities, including Yanbu, the East-West pipeline, and other Aramco facilities.