Bab al-Mandeb is a key shipping chokepoint that channels sea traffic towards the Suez Canal.

If the chokepoint were shut, along with the Strait of Hormuz, a quarter of the world's energy supply would be blocked.

The Houthi movement, a Shiite faction, holds significant territory in Yemen and maintains a strong alliance with Iran. Demonstrating robust combat capabilities, the Houthis possess the strategic ...

Blockade of strait, one of the world’s busiest maritime routes, would prove disastrous for global economy.

ADEN/GENEVA, March 26 - Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement, whose ⁠attacks ⁠on the Red Sea caused international shipping and ⁠trade chaos during the Gaza war, stands ready ...

Iran-backed Houthi forces are raising the prospect of a second global shipping choke point in the Red Sea, threatening to deepen pressure on energy markets and global trade as the conflict with Iran ...

Yemen's Ansarullah warns the Bab al-Mandeb Strait could close permanently. Closure by April 30 at 9.5% YES, by May 31 at 20% YES.

Mandeb, then all of mankind and jinn will be utterly powerless to open it,” al-Ezzi wrote on X. “And therefore, it is best for Trump—and the complicit world—to immediately end all practices and ...

The deputy foreign minister of the Houthi government in Sanaa, Hussein al-Ezzi, has warned that the rebels may close the Bab al-Mandeb Strait off the coast of Yemen if Trump continues to obstruct ...

SANAA -- Yemen's Houthi group warned on Saturday that the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait could be closed. Houthi official Hussein al-Ezzi made the remarks in a post on X, noting the possibility of ...