Yemeni army launched a missile and drone attack on a strategic target in Marib, Yemen, according to Tasnim citing Yemeni sources

Strikes within Yemen's own territory sit in a different bucket from attacks on Red Sea shipping or Gulf energy infrastructure, and the distinction matters for crude. Marib is a government-held province hosting oil and gas facilities that have been a recurring target in the civil war; past strikes there have affected local output and tribal politics rather than international supply, and Brent has historically looked through them absent damage to export infrastructure. The sourcing chain is worth noting: Tasnim is an Iranian state-linked outlet relaying Yemeni claims, and attribution of this kind has on previous occasions been framed for signalling purposes as much as battlefield effect, so confirmation from independent channels is the first tell. What separates a non-event from a crude story is escalation outward, meaning renewed missile or drone activity toward Saudi or Emirati energy assets or against Bab el-Mandeb shipping, since that is the channel through which Yemeni conflict has repriced freight, insurance, and the geopolitical premium in the past. In the absence of that follow-on, the established pattern is a muted crude response to intra-Yemen strikes.