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Updated on: October 21, 2026 / 9:50 AM EDT / CBS News

Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels said they had targeted a Saudi military operations room at Badr Camp in Aden, in southwest Yemen, with a ballistic missile on Wednesday.

Houthi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, in a post on X, called the strike a direct hit.

"Our armed forces successfully targeted the enemy Saudi operations room at Badr Camp in Aden with a ballistic missile. The strike was accurate and direct," he said.

Aden is the de facto seat of power of Yemen's Saudi-backed government, which was forced to decamp after the Houthis occupied the national capital Sanaa more than a decade ago.

The attack claimed by the Houthis Wednesday was the third in a week on Aden.

A police official in Aden told the French news agency AFP earlier that there had been a blast "caused by a Houthi missile." Two other security sources told AFP the strike targeted a site near the city's airport.

A senior official from Iran's Revolutionary Guard threatened to target undersea internet cables in the Strait of Hormuz if Iranian infrastructure comes under attack.

Brig. Gen. Yadollah Javani, the IRGC's deputy for political…

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