Yemen’s Houthis have captured Mokha and swept roughly 2,600 km² of western Yemen in a rapid coastal offensive. The advance targeted the western Taiz and southern Al-Hudaydah governorates, cutting through multiple districts in what's being described as one of the fastest territorial shifts in the war in years. Government and National Resistance Forces (Tariq Saleh's units) withdrew or collapsed across a broad front, reportedly falling back toward Aden. Named locations taken include Hays