{"id":474,"date":"2026-10-05T20:01:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T20:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=474"},"modified":"2026-10-05T20:01:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T20:01:04","slug":"saudi-coalition-yemen-dawn-offensive-houthis-bab-el-mandeb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"SAUDI COALITION STORMS BACK TO THE RED SEA CHOKEPOINT! | Riyadh throws 100 fighter jets behind \u201cYemen Dawn,\u201d Dhubab falls back into government hands \u2014 and U.S. officials say Washington helped plan the punch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fight for one of the planet\u2019s most important shipping lanes just went full throttle. Forces of the Saudi-led coalition recaptured several key areas around the <strong>Bab el-Mandeb Strait<\/strong> from Iran-backed Houthi rebels on Monday, Yemeni officials told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/saudi-backed-coalition-forces-houthis-from-several-areas-around-key-strait-yemeni-officials-say\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Government-allied forces retook the crucial town of <strong>Dhubab<\/strong> just north of the strait and also captured <strong>Bab<\/strong> and <strong>Hadeid<\/strong>, officials said; witnesses saw government tanks rolling in. Coalition spokesman Maj. Gen. <strong>Turki al-Malki<\/strong> said <strong>100 fighter jets<\/strong> were backing the offensive, that the coalition had secured \u201cair protection\u201d of the strait, and that it had destroyed hundreds of Houthi targets.<\/p>\n<p>Yemen\u2019s Presidential Leadership Council chief <strong>Rashad al-Alimi<\/strong> branded the operation <strong>\u201cYemen Dawn\u201d<\/strong> and said the goal is \u201cliberating\u201d rebel-held Sanaa. The Houthis reported multiple coalition airstrikes, including on the capital. The push came right after the rebels seized the town of <strong>Turbah<\/strong> on Sunday, cutting a main road between Taiz and Aden.<\/p>\n<p>Washington\u2019s fingerprints? Secretary of State <strong>Marco Rubio<\/strong> said the Saudis \u201chave a right to defend themselves\u201d but wouldn\u2019t detail coordination. A regional official and a U.S. official told AP that U.S. support included <strong>intelligence sharing, target identification and planning for the offensive<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Why you should care: the Houthis\u2019 September land grab \u2014 including the city of Mokha and several Red Sea islands \u2014 gave them the Yemeni side of a chokepoint that carries <strong>12% of global trade<\/strong>. The flare-up since mid-July has killed at least <strong>959 people<\/strong> and wounded more than <strong>4,200<\/strong>, per the WHO, and displaced about <strong>174,097<\/strong> people inside Yemen, per the U.N. migration agency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/saudi-backed-coalition-forces-houthis-from-several-areas-around-key-strait-yemeni-officials-say\">Associated Press via PBS News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riyadh throws 100 fighter jets behind \u201cYemen Dawn,\u201d Dhubab falls back into government hands \u2014 and U.S. officials say Washington helped plan the punch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bb-yemen-bab-el-mandeb-1005.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}