{"id":8377,"date":"2026-10-05T17:48:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T17:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/?p=8377"},"modified":"2026-10-05T17:48:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T17:48:39","slug":"yemeni-government-forces-claim-control-of-bab-el-mandeb-strait-from-houthis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/yemeni-government-forces-claim-control-of-bab-el-mandeb-strait-from-houthis-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemeni government forces claim control of Bab el-Mandeb Strait from Houthis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yemeni government forces have taken control of the strategic Bab el-Mandeb area from the Houthis as part of the ongoing military operation, \u201cDawn of Yemen,\u201d the army said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Military spokesman Lt. Col. Majid Abdullah al-Nuzayli said the pro-government Southern Giants Brigades and Nation\u2019s Shield forces had \u201csuccessfully taken control of Bab el-Mandeb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a series of statements on US social media platform X, al-Nuzayli said government forces also took control of Dhubab airport and cut the road between Dhubab and Mokha.<\/p>\n<p>He said hundreds of Houthi fighters had been surrounded in the Dhubab area and called on them to surrender, adding that some Houthi fighters later fled by boat via the sea.<\/p>\n<p>Bab el-Mandeb is a strategically important waterway connecting the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea and is a key route for international shipping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemeni government forces have taken control of the strategic Bab el-Mandeb area from the Houthis as part of the ongoing military operation, \u201cDawn of Yemen,\u201d the army said Monday. Military spokesman Lt. Col. Majid Abdullah al-Nuzayli said the pro-government Southern Giants Brigades and Nation\u2019s Shield forces had \u201csuccessfully taken control of Bab el-Mandeb.\u201d In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8378,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377\/revisions\/8378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}