On Yemen's west coast, fighting between government forces and the Houthis has sharply increased, causing more than 82,000 people to flee their homes since early September. The Yemeni army launched air strikes on Houthi positions and equipment in the Mokha and Zubab districts of Taiz province, hitting, according to the army's military representative, Colonel Majid al-Nazili, objects in the so-called “destruction zone”. The retaliatory strike came…