The Houthi offensive in western Yemen has rapidly transformed the battlefield, with the group advancing to the Red Sea port of Mocha, the approaches to Bab el-Mandeb and strategically important islands in little more than a week.
The offensive began on September 3, with the Houthis attacking along several axes across western Taiz, southern Hodeidah and the Mocha sector. Rather than concentrating on one target, the operation placed simultaneous pressure on the roads, positions and supply routes connecting Saudi-backed forces along the coast.
The first days did not immediately produce a collapse. Government forces claimed advances around al-Kadha, Maqbanah and Jabal Habashi and said on September 5 that they had regained Hays and were advancing toward al-Jarrahi. On September 6, government forces launched another attack around al-Kadha from three directions, while Saudi aircraft struck Houthi positions.
The fighting nevertheless increasingly stretched the anti-Houthi forces across multiple fronts. The Houthis pressured the network connecting western Taiz and southern Hodeidah to the coast, gradually weakening the defensive depth protecting Mocha.
By September 9, the balance had shifted decisively. Hays had changed hands and government and allied formations began withdrawing southward.
On September 10, Houthi forces entered Mocha after Saudi-backed forces withdrew. The city had served as a major military and logistical base for the anti-Houthi coalition. Its capture gave the Houthis an important Red Sea port and brought them significantly closer to Bab el-Mandeb.
The advance continued. Houthi forces moved toward Dhubab, overlooking the strait, while fighters reached Mayun, also known as Perim, the island located inside Bab el-Mandeb. Yemeni officials also reported Houthi control extending to Zuqar by September 11.
The Houthis later announced that they had driven Saudi-backed forces from six districts in Taiz and Hodeidah covering roughly 5,400 square kilometers. Military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree said seven military formations comprising 38 brigades had been attacked and claimed hundreds of personnel were killed, wounded or captured.
The speed of the advance exposed weaknesses within the anti-Houthi camp. The National Resistance, Giants Brigades, Nation’s Shield and Taiz formations traded blame for the defeat.
Saudi Arabia continued strikes while the Houthis launched missiles and drones against Saudi territory on September 8 and 9, targeting areas including Abha, Khamis Mushait, Jazan and Najran. Projectiles also struck pumping stations along the kingdom’s East-West oil pipeline on September 10, although Iraqi armed factions allied to Iran were blamed for that attack.
The offensive produced a major geographic shift. The Houthis now hold a much stronger position along Yemen’s Red Sea coast and around Bab el-Mandeb, giving them greater leverage over a vital maritime corridor and making any attempt to reverse their gains substantially more difficult.
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long live ansarallah!
death to saudi pro-zionist greedy imbeciles and their masters!
ansar allah is still very alone in its struggle for liberty from the globalist puppet saudi arabia
chumpo has already had one spanking from the houthis. he doesn’t want another.
poderosos houthíes💪🔥! com apenas duas 🩴🩴 e armas kalishnikov varreram a arábia dos al saud do oeste do país.
reminds me of the maps of north/south yemen. soviet backed and western backed. sana’a capital of north, soviet backed yemen. aden capital of south, western backed yemen. the borders are almost identical. except in the late 70’s the northern border with saudi arabia was undefined in the far east. but so was oman’s border with saudi. if you’re islamic i can see rooting for the team otherwise, you’re an infidel. i’d rather not pay the jizya tax. or worse.
if you go back in time you’d see that jordan owned a lot of what is now northern saudi arabia as an empire of jordanian royal territories, amed a former work mate of mine who is from north sudan told me all about the middle east, and if you dig into the history of the region all is not what it seems on the surface.
name the date please. ottoman empire… the kingdoms in arabia that became saudi/yemen/oman. better yet. name the kingdoms chris. lest ye be wearing diapers.
“diapers for you chris”
“someone else is pretending to be me!”
still not christopher: that’s me. and you’re still spewing crap.
i spew historical facts, it is other posters here who spew crap.
remember: “not christopher?” and “still not christopher?”
that was me. and someone else pretending to be you. i was not, and still not. diapers for you. and the the person pretending to be you. must have been 2025 or 24… cellphones make you stupid, i don’t have one.
jordan controlled territory that is now part of saudi arabia between 1925 and 1965. during this time, jordan’s borders extended further south into the inland arabian desert
jordan controlled “the west bank” ergo the name: west bank of the jordan river.
saudi arabia was established as a kingdom in 1932. the borders between yemen and oman were undefined for decades. nothing said was an answer to: “name the date please? ottoman empire… the kingdoms in arabia that became saudi/yemen/oman. better yet. name the kingdom.” i read. and will disagree. i’m going to feed my dog.
at the start of the 20th century, the ottoman empire controlled what is now jordan, with the interior regions further south consisting of loosely organised arab groupings, occasionally forming emirates, most prominent of which was the emirate of nejd and hasa ruled by the al-saud family. during the first world war an arab revolt, supported by britain, succeeded in removing the ottomans from most of the middle east.
left out half a dozen kingdoms including the hijaz (ottoman, then not. mecca.) spewing crap and the idiots love it.
what does the saudis do with all the expensive weapons they buy and their muslim coalition forces?
yemen is worse of then syria who could be supplied through iraq and to some degree by sea from russia. how do their supply lines even still work when the country who is supplying them is blockaded?
smuggling is embedded in that region going back a looooong time.
comments with factual data await approval. dans le ventre maternel. boo-hoo hoo!
gfyslf.. ye, weirdos, pro-islamic end of the world. pro-anti-christian pro russian/china atheist armageddon wishing goofballs. ru-ox church proved to be pagan when the head said anyone dying in ukr is sacrificing their life and redeeming their soul… that’s not christian. most seem secularist, or red.
5 muslims jizz blitzed my kike anuz while i licked my filipino ladyboy husband brown diek all weekend
my americunt anuz jizz blitz by 6 joos this week—got my sphincter pumped good
“there are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. in the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.” napoleon bonaparte the houthis know what they are fighting fore, and have unity in their common cause, the saudi’s and the saudi backed forces don’t understand that when you are up against someone who has a strategic goal you will loose.
napoleon lost? more than once. not a great example chris.
only alexandra the great beat napoleon in victories but napoleon is widely considered one of the finest tactical and operational commanders in history. and look what it took to finally beat him, he took on all of europe.
are you pro-russia? remember when the russians left st. petersburg? when the french arrived there was nothing to eat. and no one to conquer. they lost horribly. burnt the city down. but was a historical blunder!
napoleon took six hundred and thirty k men into russia. more than five out of every six men died in russia. the remnant who got out only did so because of the heroism of marshal ney commanding the rearguard. napoleon fled disguising himself as a polish businessman. his valet hid his pistols to stop him committing suicide.
“do not march on moscow.” field marshal bernard montgomery
yes, i am pro-russia, russia has been hard done by by european countries throughout the centuries, including my country britain, and that is just wrong to treat your neighbour like that. and it was moscow they left and burnt down, you shouldn’t listen to your dog, as it knows as much about history as you apparently do.
i am not a nation. i did not mistreat russia. the question i asked wasn’t answered.
i don’t even up or down vote. be glad you can speak a semblance of your mind on southfront.
the sonar sensor submarines are everywhere. in fact. cannot talk about japan and 2011 or other things… pouring petrol on a fire.
the battle of waterloo… that was napoleon’s biggest failure. napoleon and his god complex are fine and dandy? meanwhile the next century the germans controlled europe for a decade.
took on all of europe? i shall depart.
napoleons biggest failure was invading russia, as well as the battle of borodino.
you know who did “take on all of europe” ? the ottoman’s/berber’s/caliphate.
who won? spain reconquista. unified europe kicked out the ottomans. they became “the sick man of europe.” that’s historical fact. fed my dog.
they never reached the central parts of europe, and historians widely consider the battle of vienna on september 12, 1683, to be the ultimate military and psychological turning point. and the winged hussars: led by king john iii sobieski of poland, of the coalition launched the largest cavalry charge in history. this devastating shock tactic broke the ottoman lines and forced a chaotic retreat. tell that to your dog.
battle of vienna? so we’re really on the same page and there’s no real contention. except misinterpretation. i was being literal. i left, to feed my dog and take care of things. the time stamps. history is fun to me.
the golden age of islam. is also known as the dark age in europe. we know why. take care.