2026-09-10T19:00:54.331Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/10/politics/us-military-support-saudi-arabia-houthi-iran-yemen
多名熟悉该行动的消息人士透露，超过100名美国军事顾问已在沙特阿拉伯境内部署，为沙特在也门打击伊朗支持的胡塞武装的军事行动提供情报和目标定位支持。此次援助之际，阿拉伯半岛的战斗日趋激烈，面临升级为与胡塞武装全面战争的风险，威胁到中东第二条主要航运通道。
其中一名美国官员消息人士称，美军人员隶属于近期新成立的联合部队司令部，该司令部是在有迹象显示伊朗加大力度援助胡塞武装袭击沙特后组建的。该官员表示总兵力约为200人。
五位熟悉相关行动的消息人士向CNN透露了美军协助沙特的部署情况。
一名美国官员告诉CNN，美国已帮助沙特使用一款可让军官实时了解战场动态的目标定位工具，并将其比作五角大楼使用的 Maven 系统。另一位熟悉两国 ongoing 合作的消息人士也表示，美国正在为沙特打击胡塞武装的行动提供“地理空间”目标定位支持。
不过消息人士称，目前美国的支持存在严格限制。
美国正像往常一样与沙特共享情报，但并未直接参与空袭行动。美国也未像过去与胡塞武装作战时那样，为沙特战机提供空中加油或其他行动支持。
其中一位消息人士表示，此次行动的重点是确保沙特的行动顺畅且专业地开展。
所有消息人士都将此次行动描述为美国此前已向沙特这个重要地区盟友提供的既有合作与训练的延伸。
美国国防部一位官员告诉CNN：“按照惯例，我们不会对情报相关事务置评。”CNN已联系沙特驻华盛顿大使馆。
此次美国提供支持之际，胡塞武装近期在阿拉伯半岛取得进展，近日的战斗可能达到2022年以来的最激烈程度。当年胡塞武装与沙特支持的也门政府达成脆弱停火协议，但自此也门实际上一直处于分裂状态。
这个武装组织于周四夺取了红海一个战略港口，这可能使其得以威胁关键航运水道曼德海峡；本周早些时候，该组织还在针对沙特的导弹和无人机袭击中造成数十名平民死亡。
但萦绕在美国此次行动背后的，是奥巴马政府和特朗普第一任期内，美国军方为利雅得提供有争议的目标定位支持多年的往事，批评人士称此举导致大量平民伤亡。
后来在特朗普第二任期内，美国发动了针对也门胡塞武装的长达数月的行动，最终以突然达成的停火协议告终。CNN此前曾报道，美军参谋长联席会议主席丹·凯恩将军在被确认为特朗普的最高军事顾问后不久，就推动结束该行动，理由是美国缺乏明确的撤军计划。
随着美国对伊朗的战争持续，并有可能升级为该地区其他地方的代理冲突，美国官员一直在密切关注胡塞武装的动向。
尽管沙特最初不愿过于深入地卷入美国对伊朗的战争——甚至在今年夏天早些时候拒绝支持美国为护航受该战争影响的商船所采取的初步行动——但胡塞武装日益激进的袭击引发了美国和沙特对开辟第二战场的担忧。
一名美国官员告诉CNN，美国官员目前认为有数百名伊朗革命卫队军官在也门，与胡塞武装协同行动，目标是最终关闭连接红海与印度洋的曼德海峡。
CNN此前曾报道，伊朗曾策划一项经济“核选项”：如果与美国的谈判破裂，就指使胡塞武装关闭这条关键水道。
据另一位美国官员透露，美国国务卿马可·卢比奥本周早些时候在接受记者采访时提及了有关伊朗革命卫队在也门存在的情报，称伊朗参与了近期针对沙特能源基础设施的胡塞武装袭击。
尽管如此，在与伊朗进行了六个多月的战斗后，美军已经兵力吃紧，期间该地区的美军多次遭遇导弹和无人机袭击，部署时间延长，还面临弹药短缺的问题。美国军方也将大部分注意力集中在霍尔木兹海峡周边的行动上，包括打击伊朗目标、护航商船通过该水道以及对伊朗港口实施海上封锁。
另一位美国官员表示，军方内部对过于紧密地配合沙特打击胡塞武装的行动抱有极大警惕——尤其是如果行动出现失误造成平民伤亡，就像过去发生的那样。
“今非昔比，”另一位消息人士说道。
EXCLUSIVE: US expands intel, targeting support for Saudi campaign against Iranian ally
2026-09-10T19:00:54.331Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/10/politics/us-military-support-saudi-arabia-houthi-iran-yemen
More than 100 US military advisers are on the ground in Saudi Arabia providing intelligence and targeting support to the Kingdom in its military campaign against the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, multiple sources familiar with the effort say. The assistance comes as fighting on the peninsula intensifies and risks spilling into open war with the Houthis, threatening a second major shipping corridor out of the Middle East.
The US military personnel are working as part of a newly-established joint forces command, which was formed in recent weeks amid signs Iran was ramping up its own efforts to aid Houthi attacks against Saudi Arabia, one of the sources, a US official, said. That official put the total at roughly 200 troops.
The presence of US troops assisting Saudi Arabia was described to CNN by five sources familiar with the operations.
The US has helped Saudi Arabia use a targeting tool that allows military officers to see in real-time what is happening on the battlefield, one US official told CNN, comparing it to the Maven system used by the Pentagon. Another source familiar with ongoing cooperation between the two countries also said that the US is providing “geospatial” targeting support to Saudi Arabia for strikes against the Houthis.
However, there are currently tight limits to the US support, the sources say.
The US is sharing intelligence with Saudi Arabia — as it routinely does already — but it is not participating directly in strikes. The US is also not helping refuel Saudi warplanes or providing other operational support, as it has in past fighting with the Houthis.
The effort is instead focused on ensuring Saudi Arabia’s operations run smoothly and professionally, one of the sources said.
All of the sources characterized the effort as an extension of preexisting cooperation and training the US was already providing to Saudi Arabia, a strong regional ally.
A Department of Defense official told CNN that “as a matter of practice we do not comment on intelligence-related matters.” CNN reached out to the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington.
The US support comes amid recent Houthi advances on the peninsula, with fighting in recent days perhaps at its sharpest pitch since 2022. A fragile truce between the Houthis and the Saudi Arabia-backed Yemeni government took hold that year, but the country has remained effectively split in two since then.
The militia group on Thursday seized a strategic Red Sea port that could allow it to threaten a key shipping waterway, the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, and killed dozens of civilians in a missile and drone attack on Saudi Arabia earlier this week.
But hanging over the US effort are the memories of years of controversial targeting support American forces provided to Riyadh during the Obama and first Trump administrations that critics said contributed to a high number of civilian casualties.
Later, in Trump’s second administration, the US launched a months-long campaign against the Houthis in Yemen that ended in an abrupt ceasefire agreement. CNN previously reported that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Dan Caine, pushed for ending that operation soon after he was confirmed as Trump’s top military adviser over concerns the US lacked a clear exit strategy.
US officials have been closely monitoring the Houthis as the US war in Iran has ground on and threatened to spill over into proxy conflicts elsewhere in the region.
Although Saudi Arabia was initially reluctant to become too deeply involved in the US war with Iran — even refusing to support initial US efforts to escort commercial ships impacted by the that war earlier this summer — the increasingly aggressive attacks by the Houthis have raised US and Saudi Arabian concerns about a second front.
US officials believe there are currently hundreds of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps officers in Yemen, working alongside the Houthis with goal of ultimately shutting down the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean, one of the US officials told CNN.
CNN previously reported that Iran had been plotting an economic “nuclear option” if negotiations with the US fall apart: getting the Houthis to close that key waterway.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio alluded to intelligence about the IRGC presence in Yemen earlier this week when he told reporters that Iran had a hand in recent Houthi attacks targeting Saudi energy infrastructure, according to one of the US officials.
Still, US forces are already stretched thin after more than six months of fighting in Iran, during which American troops in the region have absorbed repeated missile and drone attacks, long deployments and concerns about munitions. The US military is also focusing most of its attention on operations around the Strait of Hormuz, carrying out strikes against Iranian targets, escorting commercial ships through the waterway and maintaining a naval blockade of Iranian ports.
And there is a deep wariness inside the military of being too closely associated with a Saudi strike campaign against the Houthis — especially if a strike goes wrong and there are civilian casualties, as happened in the past, another US official said.
“This is not the old days,” another of the sources said.
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