GOV / AFP / REUTERS: HOUTHIS LOCK WESTERN COAST + MAYYUN. BAB ISLAND DELTA.

WAR DESK — Coast-and-islands Extra. Yemeni government officials, witnesses, and wire wraps on Friday 11 September 2026 say Iran-aligned Houthi forces have pushed past Thursday’s Mocha seizure to the last Red Sea coastal towns and onto Mayyun — also known as Perim — at the heart of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Extra attributes those claims. It flags that Houthi official confirmation of full Bab control remains thin. It is not a Mocha rehash. It is not Saildrone, not Trump–MBS, and not the tankers PIN ledger. PATH /war/houthis-bab-el-mandeb-coast-islands-sep11. DESK_ID houthis-bab-el-mandeb-coast-islands-sep11.

Friday delta past Mocha (ATTRIB). Thursday’s Mocha Extra stopped at government-source seizure of Mocha (al-Mukha / Mokha) and a push toward Dhubab. Friday’s locked delta is the coast completion and the island reach.

Government and wire sources say the western coast and Mayyun completed the Bab push past Mocha. Houthi official confirm is still thin. Island delta. Separate ledger.

Al Jazeera (staff with AFP and Reuters, 11 Sep): Houthis seized the last Red Sea coastal towns in a rapid Friday advance, then pushed onto Bab al-Mandeb islands. Yemeni government sources told Reuters fighters reached Dhubab. Boats reached Mayyun / Perim after government withdrawal, officials were reported to confirm. One source told AFP the Houthis had “completed their takeover of the Bab al-Mandeb area.” Yemen Press Agency, citing field sources, said forces seized the Al-Omari camp overlooking the strait.

AFP via Euronews and The Hindu: a local government official and eyewitnesses told AFP boats carrying armed fighters reached Mayyun after Thursday’s withdrawal; the official said the group completed takeover of the Bab el-Mandeb area and Mayyun Island, which divides the strait into shipping lanes. An eyewitness described gunmen deploying along the Bab shore in military vehicles. Euronews also carried Friday reports of Dhubab and coastal Murad seizures, framing the entire Red Sea coast under Houthi control in those attributed accounts.

The National (11 Sep): Yemeni officials said Houthis took the country’s entire western coast and Perim. A second security official confirmed and said the group had also taken Zuqar. After Mokha on Thursday, the wrap says they continued south, seized Dhubab — last major western-coast town overlooking the strait and Perim — and pressed the island track. Desk geography (labeled): Perim/Mayyun sits between Yemen’s mainland and Djibouti, splitting channels toward Aden and, via Suez, Asia–Europe routes. Zuqar, per The National, is a larger Red Sea island between mainland Yemen and Eritrea — National-sourced, not independently desk-verified on the ground.

FLAG — thin Houthi official confirm. Al Jazeera’s Nabil al-Yousfi in Sanaa noted no official Houthi government announcement confirming Bab al-Mandeb control. Extra keeps that flag in the lead frame. Government-source and witness wraps are the claim set — not flattened uncontested ownership.

Diplomacy beats (labeled, not control maps). Euronews (AFP) carries Tehran’s Friday line: Iran’s MFA, via IRNA, called for an end to Saudi Arabia’s Yemen blockade and immediate talks, saying Yemen’s sovereignty must be respected. Yemen PLC head Rashad al-Alimi urged Arab and other nations to help defend Yemen’s coasts. HOLD invent any separate “NDC temporary gains” quote until a named primary is on desk.

Dual chokepoint — island-locked Bab; separate ledgers. Friday’s island reach reframes the story from a Mocha port seizure to an island-locked southern Red Sea outlet while Hormuz faces separate disruption. This file owns western coast + Mayyun/Perim (+ Zuqar via National) Fri 11 Sep — ATTRIB; FLAG thin Houthi confirm. houthis-mocha-bab-el-mandeb owns Mocha Thu 10 Sep — demote/archive; pointer OK. Saildrone / MBS / tankers PIN stay separate Hormuz or diplomacy ledgers — do not merge. Oil dual-choke IEA is a price Extra — cross-link OK.

Guardrails. Does not republish wire copy. Does not invent battle deaths or ship counts. Does not erase the thin-confirm flag. Does not merge Saildrone, MBS, tankers PIN, or Mocha as the live coast slug. Does not caption the 2017 NASA ASTER still as 11 Sep fighting. VIDEO=no.

Still discipline. Hero: NASA ASTER Bab el-Mandeb archival satellite (Wikimedia, PD) — region plate including Perim geography, acquired 10 Apr 2017. Alt: Archer90 map (CC BY-SA 3.0). Not AI event scene. Watching: Houthi official confirm or continued silence; independent Mayyun/Zuqar confirmation beyond attributed officials; Al-Omari / Murad updates — labeled, unmerged from Hormuz.

CLAIM vs CONFIRMED. ATTRIB gov/AFP/Reuters/Al Jazeera/Euronews/The Hindu/The National 11 Sep: western coast completion past Mocha; Dhubab / Murad / Al-Omari; boats to Mayyun/Perim after gov withdrawal; AFP “completed takeover of Bab al-Mandeb area”; Zuqar via The National second security official. FLAG: Al Jazeera’s Nabil al-Yousfi — no official Houthi government announcement confirming Bab control. Iran MFA blockade-end ask via IRNA (Euronews/AFP) = diplomacy beat, not control map. NOT here: invented battle deaths / ship counts; NDC “temporary gains” without named primary; merge Saildrone / Trump–MBS / tankers PIN / Mocha as live coast Extra; caption 2017 ASTER as battle day. FALSE framing — do not use: “Nth Meridian confirms uncontested Houthi ownership of Bab el-Mandeb.” VIDEO=no. Nailed down, 11 September 2026, 11:05 GMT. PATH /war/houthis-bab-el-mandeb-coast-islands-sep11. DESK_ID houthis-bab-el-mandeb-coast-islands-sep11. Beat WAR / EXTRA. PHOTO: NASA ASTER / Wikimedia Commons (PD). NTH MERIDIAN does not invent Mocha dead, Bab dead, or ship counts.

DESK_ID houthis-bab-el-mandeb-coast-islands-sep11. Canonical /war/houthis-bab-el-mandeb-coast-islands-sep11. Filed 11 September 2026, 11:05 GMT. Coast-and-islands Extra past Mocha. Verification: The National www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2026/09/11/houthis-seize-yemens-entire-western-coast-and-strategic-red-sea-islands/ ; Al Jazeera (AFP/Reuters) www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/11/houthis-take-control-of-yemens-red-sea-coast-key-shipping-route ; Euronews (AFP) www.euronews.com/2026/09/11/houthis-seize-yemeni-island-in-bab-el-mandeb-taking-control-of-the-strait ; The Hindu AFP/Reuters wraps — verification only, do not republish. Photo: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems & U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team / Wikimedia Commons (PD) — Bab el-Mandeb ASTER 10 Apr 2017 archival; not battle day. Alt map: Archer90 / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0). Distinct from /war/houthis-mocha-bab-el-mandeb, /war/irgc-saildrone-hormuz-ukmto-khasab, /war/trump-rejects-mbs-houthi-strikes, tankers PIN. Cross-link OK: /money/oil-dual-choke-bab-hormuz-iea-sep11. VIDEO=no. AdSense untouched. NTH MERIDIAN does not invent battle deaths or ship counts.