Houthis Seize US-Linked Armored Vehicles After Storming Strategic Red Sea Port
- The Houthis captured the strategic Red Sea port of Mocha and Perim Island within 36 hours, gaining control over the Bab Al Mandeb Strait entrance.
- More than 100 US military advisers provided intelligence and targeting support to Saudi Arabia but did not directly intervene militarily against the Houthis despite Saudi requests.
- Houthi fighters seized Western armored vehicles, including ones linked to US and Saudi defense manufacturers, after government troops retreated from Mocha.
- The capture of Mocha and Perim raises concerns about threats to regional maritime security and international trade routes in the Red Sea.
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Bitter Harbour: The Fall of Mocha and the Remaking of the Red Sea Order
There is a particularly dark irony, at least from our perspective, in seeing the port of Mocha change hands again. This is the town that gave the world its coffee, where ancient Yemeni beans used to be loaded onto Ottoman and European ships bound for Istanbul, Amsterdam, and more. It was a place for centuries […] The post Bitter Harbour: The Fall of Mocha and the Remaking of the Red Sea Order appeared first on Modern Diplomacy.
The new offensive changes the balance of the Yemeni war and brings the Houthi directly to the Bab al-Mandab, one of the most important maritime passages in the world. Houthi have obtained in a few days one of their most important military victories of the last years. The forces of the Yemeni movement have conquered the port of Mocha and subsequently [...] The article Yemen, the Houthi advance on the Red Sea: took Mocha, Mayun and U.S. military m…
In just two days, the Iranian-backed Houthis in northwestern Yemen captured the Yemeni port city of Mocha and the island of Perim in the Bab al-Mandab Strait. They gained leverage over one of the world's most important sea routes, the Red Sea shipping route. The Yemeni army called Riyadh for air support. The Saudis did not arrive. According to a Yemeni source, the US CENTCOM command promised Riyadh that it would intervene. "But the air support n…
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