Saudi-Backed Forces Launch Major Counteroffensive

沙特支持的部队发起大规模反攻

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2026-10-06

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A.M. Edition for Oct. 6. With France on the precipice of a dangerous financial spiral, student protestors are demanding President Emmanuel Macron raise spending, the one thing WSJ Paris bureau chief Stacy Meichtry says the country can’t afford to do. Plus, Saudi and Yemeni forces launch an operation to take back a strategic port Iran-backed Houthi rebels have been using to disrupt oil-tanker traffic through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. And the Treasury Department enables auto-enrollment and stock donations for Trump Accounts, turning the program into a universal child investment vehicle. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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  • Saudi Arabia takes on Yemen's Houthis in a counteroffensive aimed at protecting the kingdom's energy exports.

  • We'll look at the challenging fight to come.

  • This is land that really is in favor of guerrilla fighting

  • that the Houthis employ in their command of the areas that they control.

  • And that makes it more difficult for airstrikes alone to be able to do the job.

  • Plus, Germany and France dial up their campaign to stem the flood of cheap Chinese goods.

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  • It's Tuesday, October 6th.

  • I'm Luke Vargas for The Wall Street Journal.

  • And here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

  • Saudi Arabia is dialing up its fight against the Houthis in a bid to dislodge

  • the fighters from a strategic port and ease pressure on energy exports.

  • With me to discuss this long-awaited offensive is the Journal's Deputy Middle East Bureau Chief, John Gambrell.

  • John, we are reporting that the Saudis are using 100 jet fighters

  • here to provide air cover to Yemeni ground troops in this counteroffensive.

  • This sounds like a major...