Dubai: The escalation of fighting in Yemen runs parallel to an intensification of the Iran war as Houthi militants — who are backed by Tehran — push to take control of the Yemeni Red Sea coast and exert leverage over the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
Yemen has been caught in a 12-year-long civil war since the Houthis seized the capital Sanaa, prompting a Saudi-led military intervention. A U.N.-brokered truce in 2022 largely halted fighting, but the impoverished country now faces its most serious threat of a return to large-scale war.
