Houthis reach strategic Perim island in key Red Sea shipping route

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 and further increasing the threat to energy markets in the widening Middle East war. Earlier, two sources from the Saudi-backed, internationally […]