{"id":3309,"date":"2026-10-05T14:07:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/yemen-launches-retake-sanaa\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T14:07:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:07:52","slug":"yemen-launches-retake-sanaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/yemen-launches-retake-sanaa\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen launches major operation to retake Sanaa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Will the ceasefire in Yemen hold?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/will-the-ceasefire-in-yemen-hold\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yemeni<\/a> government forces have launched a large-scale military operation aimed at retaking Sanaa, which has been under Houthi control since 2014. The operation seeks to restore state institutions and bring the capital back under government control.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u201cStrategic offensive on Sanaa has begun\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Rashad al-Alimi said, \u201cOperation Dawn of Yemen has begun to restore state institutions, liberate the capital Sanaa, and end the coup by the Houthi militias.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Military spokesman Majed al-Nazili said the army had launched a \u201cstrategic offensive\u201d on Sanaa, adding that \u201cmodern capabilities\u201d were being used in the operation.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Government forces advance in Bab el-Mandeb<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Government forces are also continuing operations against the Houthis in the Bab el-Mandeb region.<\/p>\n<p>The Yemeni army said government forces had taken control of the Dhubab district and strategic positions in the surrounding area. It also announced that Dhubab airport had been seized and the road linking Dhubab and Mokha had been cut.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthis have controlled Sanaa, along with large parts of northern and western Yemen, since September 2014.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tEFZp0NH2Og?si=uulGcq6C2EMAEdw_\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemeni government forces have launched a large-scale military operation aimed at retaking Sanaa, which has been under Houthi control since 2014. The operation seeks to restore state institutions and bring the capital back under government control. \u201cStrategic offensive on Sanaa has begun\u201d Rashad al-Alimi said, \u201cOperation Dawn of Yemen has begun to restore state institutions, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[323,324,325,326,327,328,329],"class_list":["post-3309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-bab-el-mandeb","tag-houthis","tag-operation-dawn-of-yemen","tag-rashad-al-alimi","tag-sanaa","tag-yemen","tag-yemeni-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.medyaolusum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}