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On 14 Sep 2026 Houthi forces occupied Yemen’s Greater & Lesser Hanish islands after government troops withdrew, cementing a week-long offensive that now gives the group effective military control over the Red Sea entrance used by Suez-bound ships.
Oman has brokered a 14 September 2026 gathering of the six Gulf Cooperation Council foreign ministers with Iran’s Abbas Araghchi to endorse a short-term safe-passage scheme that would let commercial vessels enter Hormuz through Iranian waters and exit via Oman despite a U.S. naval blockade.
On 11 Sept 2026, open-source satellites captured an eight-hour, high-intensity fire along Saudi Arabia’s 1,200-km Petroline near Medina, suggesting Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis may have hit Riyadh’s sole overland export artery that circumvents the closed Strait of Hormuz.
On 11 Sep 2026 Houthi fighters occupied Mayun (Perim) Island after Yemeni forces withdrew, capping a week-long blitz that handed the rebels Yemen’s entire Red Sea coastline and practical command of the Bab el-Mandeb shipping chokepoint.
Oman has arranged a 14 Sept 2026 meeting in Salalah bringing together Iran’s FM Abbas Araghchi and Gulf Cooperation Council ministers to seek GCC endorsement of a time-limited plan that would reopen the Hormuz chokepoint for commercial traffic despite the ongoing U.S. naval blockade.
In a 36-hour blitz ending 11 Sept 2026, Houthi forces captured Mokha, Dhubab and Perim (Mayun) Island, giving them forward launch sites astride the 18-mile-wide Bab el-Mandeb and the entire Yemeni Red Sea coast for the first time since the war began in 2014.
After drones launched from Iraq hit Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline on 10 Sep 2026, Riyadh halted the 1,200 km conduit and Baghdad dismissed the regional operations chief blamed for the launch site.
Moscow announced that President Putin will meet Prime Minister Modi in New Delhi on 11 September 2026, setting a focused agenda on trade, Ukraine diplomacy and non-dollar settlement just before the 18-member BRICS summit opens.
In April 2026, British, Norwegian and U.S. forces shadow-tracked and confronted three Russian GUGI submarines near Svalbard, aborting a month-long drill to deploy a new, attribution-free weapon against the archipelago’s fibre-optic cables.
On 10 Sept 2026, Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis overran Saudi-backed troops and seized the Red Sea port city of Mocha, pushing their lines to the doorstep of the Bab el-Mandeb choke-point and altering control dynamics over a route carrying ~12 % of global seaborne oil.
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