Yemen’s Houthi rebels have launched a lightning offensive across the country's Red Sea coast, seizing control of the strategic Bab el-Mandeb strait and threatening to expand the frozen US-Israeli conflict with Iran to the east.
The land grab has been backed by a deadly campaign of deep strikes inside the kingdom. Over the weekend, Houthi missile and drone attacks struck King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, killing at least 13 people — marking the deadliest attack in the kingdom in more than a decade.