Yemen War News Updates -- November 2, 2015

Reuters: Victory proves elusive in Saudi king's Yemen war

In Yemen's humid southern port of Aden, Saudi Arabian soldiers in armored cars patrol streets where jihadists lurk. In Marib, east of the capital Sanaa, they fight alongside tribesmen in the hills. From the skies above, their jets fire down missiles.

Saudi military involvement in Yemen would have been unthinkable even a year ago, but with a new leadership and in the crucible of a region-wide struggle with Iran, Riyadh abandoned decades of backroom diplomacy for armed adventure.

It began six months before Russia's intervention in Syria on the other side of the Iranian-Saudi divide, but decades of instability in Yemen, isolated at the southern end of the Gulf peninsula, means it has attracted far less attention.

WNU Editor: On top of all of this misery .... Yemen is going to be hit by a rare cyclone .... Yemen island hit as Cyclone Chapala heads for mainland (BBC).

Yemen War News Updates -- November 2, 2015

Yemen battle expected to intensify before talks -- Gulf News
Yemeni government loyalists to launch offensive on Taiz ‘within hours’ -- Al Bawaba
Coalition armoured vehicles 'sent to Yemen loyalists in key city' -- AFP
Saudi-led coalition drops weapons for allies in Yemeni city -- Reuters
Gunmen kill two Yemen security officers in Aden -- AFP
Anger Burns in Bombed Yemen Villages -- VOA
UAE Armed Forces second batch to leave for Yemen -- Gulf News
UAE sends second batch of troops to Yemen -- The National
Yemen war nearing its end: Saudi FM -- Gulf News
Al-Jubeir: Yemen war in final stage -- Arab News
U.N. envoy says expects Yemen talks by mid-November -- Reuters
Yemen Peace Talks Expected To Begin By Mid-November: UN -- National Yemen
U.N. warns of dire food situation in Yemen's Taiz -- Reuters
Yemen: Footage shows aftermath of bombed MSF hospital -- IBTimes
Little international outcry as hospitals bombed in Syria, Yemen -- AP
An inside look into Yemen's health care apocalypse -- Al Bawaba
Yemen to request joining GCC after restoring stability -- Al Arabiya
Houthis: Political solution has failed in Yemen -- Middle East Monitor
US may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen -- Lauren Carasik, Al Jazeera
Yemen: A Particularly Costly Defeat For Iran -- Strategy Page
Five unexpected ways the war in Yemen has disrupted daily life -- Al Bawaba