Friday 11 September 2026

Houthi fighters celebrate on the Red Sea shore

A few dozen armed men in tribal dress on a beach, rifles raised, a white pickup on the sand and others wading into the sea behind them. The poster frames it as Ansarallah taking Yemen’s entire Red Sea coast in eighteen hours. The event is real: the Houthis took the port of Mokha on September 10 and Dhubab and Perim Island at the mouth of the Bab el-Mandeb on September 11, confirmed by Yemeni government officials to AP, NPR and NBC, and The National reported videos of fighters celebrating in Mokha. Which beach this is cannot be read from the frame, so the location rests on the post.