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Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis on Friday reached the strategic island of Perim in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, four Yemeni government sources told Reuters, potentially tightening their grip on one of the world’s vital shipping routes. Earlier, two sources from the Saudi-backed, internationally recognised Yemeni government said its forces had withdrawn from Perim and that the Houthis had also taken the mainland Red Sea coastal town of Dhubab, which faces the island. If ‌the Houthis gain full control...

Rapid advance of Iran-backed force threatens key alternative shipping route to Strait of Hormuz.

The Iran-backed Houthi rebel group on Thursday took over Yemen’s port city of Mokha, an area vital to controlling shipping through the Red Sea, Houthi and Yemeni officials said. Mokha is about 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a waterway that connects the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden and through which about 12% of the world’s goods are typically shipped. FRANCE 24's Nick Rushworth reports.

Mokha's capture would bring the Iran-backed group closer to controlling the Bab al-Mandab Strait waterway, a key shipping route.

The Houthi seizure of Mocha threatens global trade routes, severs vital supply lines, and displaces thousands in Yemen.

Houthis deliver 'significant blow' to the Yemeni government, expand control over Bab al-Mandeb, analysts say.

Iran-aligned Houthi militants seized control of Yemen's port city of Mocha on Thursday, military sources said, posing a further threat to global energy supplies. Four Yemeni government military sources said the Houthis had gained further leverage over the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the southern outlet of the Red Sea and one of the world's most important shipping routes, and were launching attacks on the strategic ​islands of Hanish.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels are advancing along the Red Sea coast, to gain more leverage over the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis seized control of ​the historic port city of Mocha on Thursday, four Yemeni government military sources said, gaining further leverage over the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, one of the world's most important shipping routes. There has been an escalation in fighting between Saudi Arabia's Yemeni allies in the internationally backed government and the Houthis in recent ⁠days, creating a second theatre of war in the Iran conflict that threatens global energy supplies.

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis seized ⁠control of the historic port city of Mocha on Thursday, four Yemeni government military sources said, gaining further leverage over the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, one of the world’s most important shipping routes. The Houthis were launching attacks on the strategic Red Sea islands of Hanish, the government sources told Reuters. Government forces and their allies are relocating south to Dhubab, which sits directly on the strait, across from the island of...

Forces loyal to the UN-recognised government and Houthis fight on multiple fronts in an effort to expand their control.

Yemen's government accuses Houthis of killing 3 children as rebels claim Saudi forces launched 54 air raids in 12 hours.

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Yemen's ambassador warns Houthi attacks threaten global shipping.

The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen on Wednesday said the Iran-backed Houthis had launched fresh attacks on the kingdom's south, after the rebels launched an offensive seeking to control the Bab al-Mandab Strait. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Adam Baron, Fellow at the New America Foundation, says that "if you have both groups able to disrupt maritime shipping both in the Red Sea and the Gulf, this would be a tremendous exercise of leverage to put pressure for a resolution".

Houthis are trying to drag Saudi Arabia into conflict by targeting Saudi territory, says Yemen’s Ambassador to Qatar.

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Here is a look at the main actors currently involved in the conflict.

Oliver Farry is pleased to welcome Jules Grange Gastinel, Researcher at the Institute for Research and Studies on the Arab and Muslim World (IREMAM). He depicts Yemen as moving from a prolonged condition of unresolved conflict into renewed regional confrontation. The relative calm established after 2022, he argues, never amounted to a durable political settlement: Yemen remains divided between rival political, financial and military institutions. 

A battle for control of Yemen’s coastal plains overlooking the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, launched on Friday by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, is rapidly intensifying into an all-out war with Saudi-backed government forces. A wave of Houthi missile and drone strikes launched against four cities in southern Saudi Arabia early on Tuesday, injuring 73 civilians, may prove to be the tipping point in the conflict, analysts say. Coinciding with an escalating battle of attrition between the United...

A suspected-Houthi roadside ambush of Yemeni government forces has been captured on camera.

Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces are intensifying their counteroffensive against the Houthis.

This phase of the war could be the start of another protracted conflict rather than a decisive campaign, say analysts.

Yemeni government and Houthi forces are engaged in a new round of fighting.

Saudi Arabia promises firm retaliation after Houthi strikes injure 73 and disrupt energy facilities in southern cities.

Bid to take Sanaa comes as fighting between Yemeni forces and Houthis intensify in provinces of al-Bayda and al-Jawf.

Houthi-run media outlet released footage of destruction after alleged Saudi air strike on al-Hazm prison.

Fighting is intensifying in Yemen as government-aligned forces launch counterattacks against the Iran-backed Houthis.

The Houthis and Yemeni government forces are battling for control of the critical Bab al-Mandeb Strait.

Military sources in Yemen say more than 140 combatants were killed in fighting between its government and Houthi rebels in the southwest of the country over the weekend. Days-long clashes have erupted in the country over the control of a gateway to the Red Sea, marking the deadliest fighting in the Arabian Peninsula country since a 2022 ceasefire between the two sides collapsed in July.

The toll from days of fighting between government forces and Iran-backed Houthi rebels in southwest Yemen climbed past 300 on Sunday, as hundreds of families fled their homes to escape the violence. Two military officials with the Saudi-backed government forces said that 84 of their troops were killed between midday Saturday and early Sunday morning, mostly in missile attacks. Four Houthi military sources said 57 rebel fighters were killed in the same period. The two sides have been fighting for...