也门由沙特阿拉伯支持、获国际社会承认的政府周日表示，将发起一场重大军事行动，以夺回伊朗支持的胡塞武装控制下的该国所有地区。
Yemen's Saudi-backed, internationally recognized government said on Sunday it was launching a major military campaign to recapture all areas of the country controlled by the Iran-backed Houthis.
也门总统拉沙德·阿利米在电视讲话中表示，政府武装部队将推进攻势，“直至国家从恐怖民兵的掌控中解放出来”。一名军方发言人随后呼吁胡塞武装放下武器。
The government's armed forces would press the offensive "until the country is liberated from the grip of the terrorist militia," Yemeni President Rashad al-Alimi said in a televised address. A military spokesman later called on the Houthis to lay down their weapons.
胡塞武装正式名称为“安萨尔·安拉”（真主支持者），自2014年以来一直控制着也门首都萨那以及西北部大片地区，该国大部分人口居住于此。多年来，他们经受住了沙特阿拉伯、阿联酋及其西方盟友的一系列打击，并在伊朗的帮助下更新了武器装备。
The Houthis, known formally as Ansar Allah, have held Yemen's capital Sanaa and vast parts of the northwest, where most of the population lives, since 2014. They have so far withstood a series of attacks over the years by Saudi Arabia, the UAE and their Western allies, and have updated their weaponry with the help of Iran.
该运动上个月发动了突然攻势，在数周内夺取了战略要地曼德海峡以及约150公里（90英里）的红海海岸线，使胡塞武装对这条国际航运路线获得了新的筹码。
The movement launched a surprise offensive last month that captured the strategic Bab el-Mandeb strait and some 150 km (90 miles) of Red Sea coast in a matter of weeks, giving the Houthis new leverage over the international shipping route.
这一推进还在今年2月针对伊朗发动的更广泛的美国-以色列战争中开辟了新战线，德黑兰的回应包括扼制霍尔木兹海峡的石油运输，该海峡位于阿拉伯半岛的另一侧。
That advance also opened a new front in the wider US-Israeli war launched in February against Iran, to which Tehran's responses included choking oil shipping through the Strait of Hormuz to the other side of the Arabian Peninsula.
胡塞武装称袭击了沙特阿拉伯 随着被称为总统领导委员会的也门政府发表声明，胡塞武装表示，他们已向沙特阿美公司在利雅得和沙特阿拉伯胡赖斯地区的设施发射了弹道导弹和无人机。
Houthis say they struck Saudi Arabia As the Yemeni government, known as the Presidential Leadership Council, made its announcement, the Houthis said they had launched ballistic missiles and drones at Saudi Aramco sites in Riyadh and the Khurais area of Saudi Arabia.
他们声称，这些袭击造成了重大火灾，是对过去12小时内沙特主导的50次对也门的空袭和导弹打击的回应。沙特阿拉伯未立即证实。
They claimed the attacks caused major fires and were in response to what they said were 50 Saudi-led air and missile strikes in Yemen in the past 12 hours. Saudi Arabia did not immediately confirm.
阿利米表示，在一切降级冲突的机会都已用尽之后，才做出了发动反攻的决定。
Alimi said the decision to launch the counteroffensive came after all chances of de-escalating the conflict had been exhausted.
他感谢沙特阿拉伯的支持，并呼吁也门地区盟友及国际合作伙伴支持也门合法政府（PLC）的军队和机构。
He thanked Saudi Arabia for its support and called on Yemen's regional allies and international partners to support PLC forces and institutions.
本周早些时候，地区及西方官员向路透社透露，沙特阿拉伯及其在也门的盟友正计划对胡塞武装发起进攻，其中沙特将主导空中作战，而也门部队则负责地面战斗。
Regional and Western officials had told Reuters earlier this week that Saudi Arabia and its Yemeni allies were planning to launch an assault on the Houthis, with the Saudis leading aerial combat and Yemeni forces fighting on the ground.
中东战事新战线：据熟悉沙特筹备工作的六人向路透社透露，美国已提供情报支持利雅得在也门的行动，而一些地区及欧洲国家则主要为沙特提供防御性军事援助。
New front in Mideast war The US is already providing intelligence to support Riyadh's operations in Yemen, while some regional and European nations are providing mainly defensive military aid to the kingdom, six people with knowledge of the Saudi preparations told Reuters.
美国对伊朗的战争虽重创了伊朗军事和政治领导层，但也使华盛顿陷入中东新的冲突之中，并消耗了关键的军事装备。
The United States' war on Iran has decimated a layer of Iranian military and political leadership, but has also entangled Washington in a new engagement in the Middle East and depleted crucial military hardware.
也门多年来深陷冲突，国内众多武装团体和派系分别受到不同地区及国际势力的支持。
Yemen has been mired in conflict for years, with an array of local armed groups and factions backed by competing regional and international actors.
2011年，作为“阿拉伯之春”运动的一部分，一场民众起义爆发后，扎伊迪派什叶派穆斯林武装组织胡塞武装占领了萨那。
After a popular uprising that was part of the Arab Spring movements in 2011, the Houthis, an armed group of Zaidi Shi'ite Muslims, captured Sanaa.
自胡塞武装掌权以来，获得沙特支持且同样得到联合国承认的也门合法政府（PLC）一直控制着该国南部和东部地区，其基地位于前南也门首都亚丁。
The Saudi-backed PLC, which is also recognized by the United Nations, has, since the Houthi takeover, controlled the south and east of the country, based in the former South Yemen capital of Aden.
2015年，沙特阿拉伯率领一个阿拉伯联盟进入也门内战，以支持也门合法政府，但未能击败胡塞武装。
Saudi Arabia entered Yemen's civil war in 2015 at the head of an Arab coalition in support of the PLC, but failed to defeat the Houthis.
2022年交战双方达成的一项停火协议基本维持至今年，但随后胡塞武装因伊朗战争外溢影响，对沙特航运及石油基础设施发动了导弹和无人机袭击。
A truce agreed between the warring parties in 2022 largely held until this year, when the Houthis launched missile and drone attacks on Saudi shipping and oil infrastructure in a spillover from the Iran war.
胡塞武装占据主动：自上月闪电攻势中夺取巴布埃尔曼德海峡后，胡塞武装便在地面战场上保持主动，政府军迅速溃败。
Houthis on front foot The Houthis have maintained the initiative on the ground since seizing control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in their lightning offensive last month that saw government forces collapse.
曼德海峡是红海的南部出口通道，是地中海与亚洲之间的一条关键航运路线，今年作为霍尔木兹海峡的替代路线，其重要性更加凸显。
Bab el-Mandeb is the southern exit passage of the Red Sea, a key shipping route between the Mediterranean and Asia that has assumed even more importance this year as an alternative to the Strait of Hormuz.
军方消息人士称，在过去48小时里，胡塞武装也在也门塔伊兹附近的战略制高点上对政府军和地方武装取得了进展，正在逼近该市通往南部沿海城市亚丁的最后一条道路。
In the last 48 hours, the Houthis have also made gains against government and local forces on strategic hilltops near Yemen's Taiz, military sources said, advancing on the last road between the city and Aden on the southern coast.
如果胡塞武装控制了塔伊兹-亚丁公路，将实际上实施对这座也门第三大城市的围困，该城市居住着数十万平民，同时也驻扎着数千政府军。
Houthi control over the Taiz-Aden road would lead to an effective siege of the city, Yemen's third-largest, inhabited by hundreds of thousands of civilians and where thousands of government forces are also stationed.
这座城市的重要性不仅在于其战略位置；阿利米就来自该地区，而对塔伊兹的围困将进一步恶化该国已经严峻的人道主义局势。
The city matters not just for its strategic location; Alimi is from the region, and a siege of Taiz would worsen an already dire humanitarian situation in the country.
世界粮食计划署上周表示，也门部分地区四分之三的家庭因战事升级的影响而面临饥饿，这场冲突已导致数万人流离失所，并切断了对数百万人的物资供应。
Three in four families in parts of Yemen are going hungry from the impact of the surge in fighting, which has displaced tens of thousands of people and disrupted supplies to millions, the World Food Programme said last week.