MokhaGovernment forces fled this port town at dawn on Sept. 10.
Within a week the Houthis held the Bab al-Mandab coast, the strait that carries Red Sea shipping.
Yemen’s government and Saudi backers had promised Sanaa’s “liberation” on social media before the Houthis struck first on Sept. 4.
The Yemeni fact-checking group Sidq found the campaign’s viral video was spliced from unrelated footage of Syria’s president.
The UN refugee agency counted more than 130,000 people displaced in September alone.
How each outlet framed it
- New Lines Magazine leans critical
- documents spliced propaganda video, shows Yemen borrowing Syria's successful transition narrative to mobilize against Houthis
Sources: New Lines Magazine