BBC studies from the front-line of an escalating battle in Yemen

In uncommon entry to Yemen’s unrest zone, the BBC has travelled with authorities forces from Taiz by checkpoints to the road the place the Houthi management ends and no man’s land begins.

Saudi-backed pro-government forces are battling to push again Houthi fighters, who swept down the coast of the Red Sea earlier this month, taking management of a key transport chokepoint and escalating Yemen’s civil battle.

From the front-line a drone is heard above, which a soldier accompanying the crew in south-western Yemen stated is normally adopted by an assault.

Within about 10 minutes, after the crew had pushed away, the loud thuds of strikes adopted, senior transnational investigations correspondent Nawal Al-Maghafi studies.