As Houthis Capitalize on U.S.-Led War with Iran, Fighting Engulfs Yemen

As Houthis capitalize on U.S.-led war with Iran, fighting engulfs Yemen

After months largely on the sidelines in the U.S.-led war against Iran, the Houthi rebels mounted a stunning offensive earlier this month along Yemen’s Red Sea coast that sent global oil markets reeling. Now, as the Iranian-backed militia group continues to push for more territory and the military coalition supporting Yemen’s internationally recognized government increasingly fights back, a brutal civil war has been reignited. A humanitarian dis…

Iran and the Houthis could redraw the global energy map

The world is discovering that Iran and the Houthis do not need to control the world's oil fields to exercise enormous influence over the global economy; they only need to control, or constrain access to, the narrow waterways through which that oil must pass. A War That Has Reached the Energy Arteries The Strait of Hormuz has become the central economic pressure point of the US-Israel war with Iran. Commercial traffic through the waterway has bee…

As Houthis capitalize on U.S-led war with Iran, fighting engulfs Yemen

As a brutal civil war reignites in Yemen between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and the government coalition backed by Saudi Arabia, a humanitarian disaster seems inevitable.

Could Yemen's Houthis hold the world to ransom?

Yemens’ civil war has flared up in recent weeks, as the Iran-backed Houthi movement seized strategically...