{"id":19627,"date":"2026-09-11T14:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T09:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=19627"},"modified":"2026-09-11T14:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T09:11:10","slug":"houthis-reach-yemen-town-near-strat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2026\/09\/11\/houthis-reach-yemen-town-near-strat\/","title":{"rendered":"Houthis Reach Yemen Town Near Strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Houthis Reach Yemen Town Near Strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, sources say <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>ADEN: Yemeni Houthi forces have reached the Yemeni town of Dhubab, located directly on the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait opposite the island of Perim, two <a href=\"http:\/\/@yemen_mofa\">Yemeni government<\/a> sources told Reuters on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The development could have significant strategic implications because control of Dhubab and Perim is considered key to gaining control over the narrow maritime passage, the government sources said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Bab el-Mandeb Strait is a crucial global shipping route connecting the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the wider Arabian Sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houthis Reach Yemen Town Near Strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, sources say ADEN: Yemeni Houthi forces have reached the Yemeni town of Dhubab, located directly on the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait opposite the island of Perim, two Yemeni government sources told Reuters on Friday. The development could have significant strategic implications because control of Dhubab and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2297,2299],"tags":[4068,4067],"class_list":["post-19627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-bab-el-mandeb","tag-yemeni-houthi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19629,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19627\/revisions\/19629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}