Houthi forces advanced toward Marib and Taiz on Monday in the copy Al Jazeera filed as a threat to the government's last major northern stronghold and to a city that bridges north and south. [1] An advance is not a fall. Marib still sits in the government column in fetched copy. Taiz is still a fight, not a capture.

Arab News filed a government-aligned counterattack west of Taiz after Red Sea setbacks, including positions retaken in Al-Waziyah. [2] A hill and two villages are not the city. Airstrikes around Mokha and Dhubab are the coast file, already moving this week through Mokha, Perim, and Hanish. [2] Do not spend Hanish twice. This story is inland.

Marib's oil, gas, and displaced camps are why the push matters. [1] A Houthi flag over those fields would be a different edition. Monday does not own that flag. Yemen's human-rights ministry casualty numbers for September 3 to 13 belong in the humanitarian remainder, not as a Monday battle tally this desk did not independently count. [1]

Print the advance. Print the counterattack. Leave a fallen Marib to an edition that owns a fallen Marib.

-- PRIYA SHARMA, Delhi