Yemen front and the region
Conflicting accounts after Bab al-Mandab pullback; Houthis announce release of 600 prisoners
After the Southern Armed Forces announced a redeployment from Dhubab and Bab al-Mandab, Reuters said the move leaves the Houthis in control of the area, while a military source called it a limited withdrawal. In Sanaa, the Houthi prisoners' committee announced at a press conference the release of 600 prisoners, with no independent confirmation of a handover. In the Gulf, Bahrain's foreign ministry posted a condemnation of Iranian attacks whose full text we could not read, and Tehran said it would answer any attack.
Summary
- DisputedReuters: the pullback near Bab al-Mandab leaves the Houthis in control. A military source: the withdrawal is limited and forces remain in Kahbub and al-Saqiya.
- AttributedThe Houthi prisoners' committee announces at a press conference the release of 600 prisoners, on the date it set on Saturday. We found no independent confirmation of their handover.
- AttributedThe Taiz military axis reports Houthi dead and wounded in Sanamat and an air strike on a weapons depot in Najd Qasim.
- UnverifiedA post by Bahrain's foreign ministry on X condemns continued Iranian attacks. We could not read the full statement or establish its original release time.
- AttributedIran's foreign ministry spokesman says his country will not leave any attack unanswered.
- AttributedWhen we checked, we found no interception announcement newer than 02:22 on the coalition spokesman's account, and no alert newer than 03:50 UTC on the Bahraini interior ministry's account.
prisoners the Houthi committee says it is releasing, with no independent confirmation of the handover
26 07:51Ztotal the committee says were covered by unilateral release initiatives since 2015
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- AttributedTaiz
Taiz axis reports Houthi dead and wounded in Sanamat and a strike on a weapons depot in Najd Qasim
Al-Mashhad al-Yemeni at 08:07 UTC, followed by Belqees at 08:10, quoted the media centre of the Taiz military axis as saying army and resistance forces killed and wounded Houthi fighters on Sunday on the Sanamat front in Sabr al-Mawadim district, south of Taiz. The centre said warplanes destroyed a weapons and ammunition depot in Najd Qasim. The report gives no death toll, no time for the strike and does not say who carried it out; we found no Houthi comment or independent verification.
Source: almashhad.news belqees.net - UnverifiedBahrain
Bahraini foreign ministry post condemns continued Iranian attacks and holds Iran responsible
Bahrain's foreign ministry posted on its X account at 08:01 UTC that Bahrain condemns in the strongest terms continued Iranian attacks on its territory and holds Iran fully responsible for the consequences. Indexed copies of the news appeared from 07:40, so the statement may have been issued before the post, and we could not establish its original release time. We did not read the full text because the ministry's website blocked our browser, and the attached image is only a title card.
Source: x.com - AttributedSanaa
Houthi prisoners' committee announces release of 600 prisoners at a press conference
The Houthi-run 26 September site reported at 07:51 UTC that the prisoners' committee announced at a press conference in Sanaa, which it said the Red Cross attended, the release of 600 prisoners from Saudi-backed forces, on the date the group set on Saturday. Committee head Abdulqader al-Murtada said unilateral release initiatives have covered 2612 prisoners since 2015, and accused the other side of executing prisoners and stalling the Amman deal signed in May. The site's headline says the operation was carried out, while the text describes an announcement at a press conference. As of our search we found no independent confirmation of the handover from the Red Cross or the government, so its implementation remains the group's account.
Source: 26sep.net - DisputedBab al-Mandab and Dhubab
Conflicting accounts of the situation at Bab al-Mandab after the southern forces' redeployment
Reuters, in a report carried by The Straits Times at 08:34 UTC, said the government forces' withdrawal from an area overlooking Bab al-Mandab leaves the Houthis in control of it. Aden Time, at 08:00, quoted an unnamed military source as saying the withdrawal is limited and forces remain in Kahbub and al-Saqiya, with the Mudaraba, Maqatira and Tur al-Baha fronts being reinforced. The pro-Houthi site Al-Khabar al-Yemeni claimed at 07:44 that the Saudi command ordered a pullback towards Khor Umaira by noon and that 8 armoured vehicles were burned. We found no official Houthi claim of control, and no independent party has verified the situation on the ground.
- AttributedIran and the Gulf
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman: no attack will go unanswered
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei told his Sunday press conference, in answer to a question about Iran's recent attacks on Bahrain, that Tehran would not leave any attack unanswered and that the armed forces would decide how to respond, according to Iran International at 08:25 UTC. Al-Alam quoted him at 07:39 as saying Washington started the war and bears responsibility for the hostility. He also said Iran is not currently accepting commitments on its nuclear programme.
Source: alalam.ir iranintl.com