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Houthi-run media deny the government has made advances in the Dhubab area, which overlooks the strategic Red Sea waterway.
Saudi Arabia has hosted a multinational naval coalition meeting aimed at protecting shipping in the Red Sea.
Saudi Arabia faces a โhumiliating dilemmaโ after the United States refused to militarily intervene to prevent the Iran-aligned Houthi militia from tightening its blockade of the kingdomโs key backup maritime trade route with Asia, according to analysts. US President Donald Trump on September 12 dismissed the Houthi seizure of Yemenโs entire Red Sea coast as a problem that โonly affects one countryโ. Iran has already blockaded the Straits of Hormuz, Saudi Arabiaโs main oil and petrochemicals...
Yemenโs Houthis have agreed to allow US shipping unfettered Red Sea access if Washington refrains from military action.
Abdul Malik al-Houthi, an elusive figure who commands โ a battle-hardened force, scored his biggest military victory in years when his Iran-aligned Houthi militant group swept through Yemenโs Red Sea coastline and tightened their grip on a vital shipping waterway, rattling oil superpower Saudi Arabia. The offensive, which has been accompanied by attacks on Saudi Arabia, has put the Houthis in a strong position to call the shots in the Bab el-Mandeb strait by potentially halting global trade in...
The conflict in Yemen intensified on Sunday, as government forces launched attacks against Iran-backed Houthi rebels along the Red Sea and Houthis fired into neighboring Saudi Arabia, which supports Yemenโs government. The Yemeni government vowed to send more forces to the Red Sea coast and one official conceded a โpainfulโ defeat last week when Houthis captured the port city of Mokha and an island on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a crucial shipping alternative to the Strait of Hormuz.
Yemeni government forces says they launched air strikes on Houthi fighters along the Red Sea coast.
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi rebels captured the strategic Perim Island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, located at the southern entrance to the Red Sea, officials said on Friday. The lightning move opens a new front in the Iran war and threatens energy supplies, especially Saudi oil exports, from passing through one of the world's key shipping lanes.ย
Houthis were already able to disrupt shipping - their advance consolidates that power, and exposes government weakness.
The Iran-backed Houthis are also reported to have seized Perim - a strategic island on the major shipping route.
Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said maritime navigation in the Red Sea is safe, except for Saudi ships.