Yemeni armed forces wrested back control of the Red Sea port city of Mocha on Monday during an offensive to push Houthi forces out of the Bab-el-Mandeb strait.
Pakistan and Turkey joined Saudi Arabia in a military campaign providing air support with 100 fighter jets under the mutual defense commitments of the Mecca Pact.
The renewed civil war has displaced 184,000 people and raised global energy concerns as Saudi Aramco chief executive Amin Nasser warned oil stockpiles are scarily thin.