{"id":35993,"date":"2026-09-12T09:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T09:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=35993"},"modified":"2026-09-12T09:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T09:52:21","slug":"lightning-houthi-advance-in-yemen-may-bring-dangerous-new-dimension-to-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=35993","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Houthi advance in Yemen may bring dangerous new dimension to Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Houthis&#8217; lightning advance across the southern reaches of the Tihamah \u2013 Yemen&#8217;s arid coastal plain \u2013 appears to have taken most observers by surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until recently, the anti-Houthi coalition known as the National Resistance held significant territory along Yemen&#8217;s Red Sea coast. In a matter of days, much of this has fallen to the Houthis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to some estimates, the Iranian-backed rebels have captured as much as 130km (81 miles) of the country&#8217;s strategically important coastline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s the group&#8217;s most impressive military coup for several years, proving that despite a civil war that has lasted 12 years, devastating Saudi air raids and attacks by American, Israeli and British forces, the Houthis remain a force to be reckoned with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With their opponents stunned and demoralised, it&#8217;s unlikely the Houthis will be dislodged any time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houthis&#8217; lightning advance across the southern reaches of the Tihamah \u2013 Yemen&#8217;s arid coastal plain \u2013 appears to have taken most observers by surprise. Until recently, the anti-Houthi coalition known as the National Resistance held significant territory along Yemen&#8217;s Red Sea coast. In a matter of days, much of this has fallen to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35995,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35993\/revisions\/35995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}