Yemen War Live Map 🇾🇪

This Yemen war map follows two overlapping crises: the civil war between the Houthi movement, also known as Ansar Allah, and its opponents inside Yemen, and the maritime confrontation in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The Houthis took Sanaa in 2014, a Saudi-led coalition intervened in 2015, and from November 2023 the movement began attacking shipping near the Bab el-Mandeb strait, which drew US, British and Israeli strikes on Houthi targets. The map shows current reports from land and sea, so readers can see where fighting, strikes and shipping incidents are being reported now and how the picture has changed over time.

On land, the Houthis control Sanaa and much of the north-west, including the Red Sea port of Hodeidah, while the internationally recognised government and the Southern Transitional Council hold areas in the south and east, including Aden. Clashes have repeatedly been reported around Marib, Taiz and along the border with Saudi Arabia. At sea, events cluster along the Red Sea shipping lane, the Bab el-Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. Strikes on Houthi targets have hit Sanaa, Hodeidah and other western ports and facilities, while Houthi missile and drone launches have been aimed at ships, at Saudi territory in earlier years and at Israel.

Plotted events include ground clashes and shelling on the domestic front lines, missile and drone launches, reported attacks on merchant ships and naval vessels, boardings and seizures, US and UK strikes on Houthi sites that began in January 2024, Israeli strikes on ports and infrastructure, coalition air activity and maritime security advisories. Activity of the EU's Aspides naval mission and other escort operations appears where it is reported. Each event carries a timestamp, coordinates, a category and a link to its source, and the /livemap/ tracker lets you look at AIS ship positions in the same waters to see the traffic around a reported incident.

Sources include Yemeni media from all sides, both Houthi-run and government-aligned outlets, statements by Houthi military spokesmen, US Central Command, the UK Maritime Trade Operations centre, the Israeli military, shipping companies and international news agencies, plus geolocated footage. Houthi claims of successful attacks and Western or Israeli claims of interceptions are both shown as reported and labelled with their origin, not treated as confirmed. For colour grouping the map uses Yemen versus Saudi Arabia, reflecting the historical coalition structure of the war since 2015. This is a technical classification of reported actors, not a political judgement about any party to the conflict.

The Yemen map is neutral: it records reported events, their location and their time, without endorsing any side's narrative. It is used by journalists, analysts, maritime security and shipping professionals, humanitarian workers and readers following the Red Sea crisis. New events are added roughly every five minutes, titles are automatically translated into English, Polish, Ukrainian and Russian, and the free dashboard keeps 30 days of history. The same data is available with an API key through the REST endpoint /v1/events?region=yemen. Military aircraft and some vessels do not broadcast ADS-B or AIS, so the live tracker shows only part of the traffic in the region.