Yemen government forces said on Sept. 13 that a month-long conflict with Houthi fighters in western coastal areas and nearby islands has resulted in about 2,000 government casualties and more than 1,000 Houthi fatalities, with several thousand wounded. Yemen Republic TV cited a National Resistance Forces statement saying the casualties occurred between Aug. 9 and Sept. 10. The statement said the fighting began after Houthi missile and drone strikes on National Resistance positions and spread fro

Former CIA officer David J. Lash, charged with inflating pay via false declarations and stealing public funds, has reached an interim plea agreement with federal prosecutors because the case involves substantial classified material. Prosecutors and Lash’s lawyers filed a joint court document on the 10th but did not disclose the agreement’s terms. A federal judge on the 11th extended the deadline to formally indict Lash to Oct. 8 to give parties time to finalize a deal; both sides said a public trial would be highly complex given the classified evidence.

A spokesman for Yemen's Houthi movement said the group launched a special military operation against Saudi Arabia, striking a weapons depot and a command center inside a military base in the Sharurah region. He said the attack employed numerous ballistic missiles and drones that hit targets precisely, and was carried out in response to what the group called continued Saudi aggression.