{"id":38403,"date":"2026-09-10T14:34:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/yemeni-armed-forces-close-to-full-control-of-al-makha-port\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T14:34:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T11:04:41","slug":"yemeni-armed-forces-close-to-full-control-of-al-makha-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/yemeni-armed-forces-close-to-full-control-of-al-makha-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemeni Armed Forces close to full control of al-Makha port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6168417.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Al-Mayadeen&#8217;s correspondent reported that Yemeni armed forces have taken control of the al-Wazeiyah, al-Khokha and Hays areas and have approached the entrances to the strategic al-Makha port.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The correspondent said Yemeni armed forces have managed to take control of important areas and military bases at the al-Makha port in western Taiz province. According to the correspondent, Yemeni forces have seized the Khaled base and the Jabal al-Nar base, the headquarters of the Saudi mercenaries on the western coast.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Yemeni media said a large number of Saudi mercenaries at al-Makha airport have surrendered themselves to Yemeni armed forces.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The commander of the Saudi mercenaries on Yemen&#8217;s western coast, announced that they had been forced to redeploy their forces and retreat south of al-Makha port.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The reports came as no official statement has been issued by Yemeni armed forces about taking control of al-Makha port. Reuters, citing Yemeni government sources, reported that the Ansarullah movement has taken control of al-Makha city and holds about 2,600 square kilometres of the strategic port&#8217;s area.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Agence France-Presse, citing a military source and Yemeni witnesses, also reported that Ansarullah forces have taken control of the port city of al-Makha on the Red Sea coast.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Al-Makha is a strategic port on the Red Sea coast near the Bab el-Mandeb strait. Its importance lies in its control and monitoring of the Red Sea shipping route, the transfer of goods, and its military position.<\/p>\n<p>MNA\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/247624\/Yemeni-Armed-Forces-close-to-full-control-of-al-Makha-port\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Mayadeen&#8217;s correspondent reported that Yemeni armed forces have taken control of the al-Wazeiyah, al-Khokha and Hays areas and have approached the entrances to the strategic al-Makha port. The correspondent said Yemeni armed forces have managed to take control of important areas and military bases at the al-Makha port in western Taiz province. According to the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}