{"id":61196,"date":"2026-09-12T03:17:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=61196"},"modified":"2026-09-12T03:17:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:17:49","slug":"houthis-claim-major-advance-in-yemen-and-tighten-grip-on-red-sea-shipping-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=61196","title":{"rendered":"Houthis claim major advance in Yemen and tighten grip on Red Sea shipping lane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yemen&#8217;s Houthis have claimed a major advance on the western Red Sea coast, consolidating their grip on the key international shipping route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Iran-backed group seized Perim Island at the mouth of the waterway in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a source from Yemen&#8217;s internationally recognised government told the BBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It comes a day after the Houthis&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c4g7vr0lngwo\">captured the strategic port city of Mokha from Saudi-backed<\/a>&nbsp;pro-government forces, according to military sources. A Yemeni military official told the AFP news agency the Houthis now control the entire coastline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Houthis earlier said they posed no threat to international shipping but reiterated their threat to target vessels from Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country&#8217;s de facto ruler, has personally pressed US President Donald Trump to take military action against the Houthis during their rapid advance, two sources familiar with the matter told CBS News &#8211; the BBC&#8217;s media partner in North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump has so far declined to involve the US military directly, offering instead to assist with intelligence and targeting support, the sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A senior Trump administration official later told the BBC: &#8220;We are in continuous dialogue with Saudi Arabia and the Republic of Yemen government regarding regional stability.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: Yemen&#8217;s Houthis have claimed a major advance on the western Red Sea coast, consolidating their grip on the key international shipping route. The Iran-backed group seized Perim Island at the mouth of the waterway in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a source from Yemen&#8217;s internationally recognised government told the BBC. It comes a day after the Houthis&nbsp;captured the strategic port city of Mokha from Saudi-backed&nbsp;pro-government forces, according to military sources. A Yemeni military official told the AFP news agency the Houthis now control the entire coastline. The Houthis earlier said they posed no threat to international shipping but reiterated their&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61198,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61196\/revisions\/61198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}