Yemen government forces say they retook Red Sea port city of Mocha

Control of Mocha matters less for its own throughput than for what it signals about the Red Sea corridor, where shipping has already been repricing war-risk exposure. A government retaking of a western-coast port would shift the geography of who can threaten or guarantee transits, though a claim of recapture is not the same as consolidated control. Whether the front line stabilises around Mocha, and whether insurers and carriers treat that as a durable change, is the open question.