Yemen Fighting

Renewed fighting in Yemen has displaced nearly 94,000 people, many of whom have fled to coastal areas seeking safety. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has deployed teams to assist new arrivals, distributing food, providing emergency shelter, and helping women and children cope with extreme...

Drop Site News analysts Murtaza Hussain and Sarmad Jawad examine recent Houthi military gains in Yemen and their cascading effects on international commerce and US strategic planning. According to the source, the group's territorial advances are disrupting global shipping routes and oil flows, forcing reassessment...

Yemeni families are arriving by boat in Djibouti as fighting intensifies involving Iran-aligned Houthi forces, according to footage released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). TRT World reports the IOM documented arrivals at the Markazi refugee settlement, where aid agencies are providing food, water,...

Yemen's Houthis conducted a new barrage of missile and drone attacks against Saudi military targets on Monday, according to France 24 reporting. Iran has denied involvement in Yemen's renewed civil war despite longstanding allegations of support for the Houthi militia. Dr. H.A. Hellyer, a Senior...

Violence broke out at a polling station in the southern Philippines as the predominantly Muslim region voted in its first parliamentary election in decades, DW News reports, following decades of insurgency by separatists fighting for an independent state.

BBC News reports that Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have claimed control of Perim Island and advanced along Yemen's western coast in recent days — a strategically significant position overlooking the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a critical chokepoint for global oil shipments. The territorial gains follow ongoing tit-for-tat...

Houthi forces have taken control of Yemen's entire Red Sea coastline, including the strategically critical Bab el-Mandeb strait through which a significant portion of Saudi oil transits to global markets. Saudi Arabia has responded with new military strikes against the Iran-aligned group, also known as...

Yemen's Houthi rebel group carried out coordinated attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities in the southern region on September 8, 2026. Saudi Arabia says over 70 people, including women and children, were injured in the strikes, and fires erupted at multiple oil facilities. The attacks...

Yemen-based Houthi rebels claimed control of a strategic island at the Red Sea entrance, according to Channel 4 News reporting. The seizure would position the Iran-backed militant group to threaten one of the world's most critical shipping corridors, through which billions in global trade passes...

Retired U.S. Navy SEAL Robert Harward, former deputy commander of U.S. Central Command, discussed potential military responses to Iranian-backed Houthi forces in Yemen that have established a shipping chokepoint in the Red Sea. Harward's commentary reflects his assessment of escalating naval tensions and the options...

Yemen-based Houthi forces captured Perim Island in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait on Friday, according to two Yemeni government sources cited by CNN. The move follows the group's seizure of the port town of Mocha a day earlier as it consolidates control over the Red Sea...

According to BBC News, citing reports from Yemen, fighters from the Iran-backed Houthi movement have reached Perim Island in the Red Sea, a strategically critical chokepoint at the Bab el-Mandeb Strait — one of the world's busiest shipping corridors. BBC News reports the advance could...

Drop Site News interviewed foreign policy experts Vali Nasr — professor of international affairs and Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS and a former senior Obama administration adviser — and Rob Malley, former U.S. special envoy for Iran and senior fellow at Yale's Jackson...

Iran-backed Houthi forces captured Mokha, a strategic port city in Yemen located on the Bab el-Mandeb strait, from allies of Yemen's internationally recognized government, PBS NewsHour reports. The seizure marks an escalation in Yemen's conflict and puts renewed pressure on one of the world's most...

Yemen's Houthi rebels captured the port city of Mocha, according to Yemen's internationally recognized government. Approximately 50 miles south of Mocha lies Perim Island in the Strait of Bab al-Mandab, a strategic chokepoint for global shipping. CNN characterizes the Houthis as Iran's most powerful regional...

Iran-backed Houthi rebels attacked Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, igniting fires at multiple oil facilities and wounding dozens of people, according to DW News reporting. In response, Saudi-backed forces launched dozens of airstrikes overnight across four Yemeni provinces.

Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen launched a major attack on southwestern Saudi Arabia early Tuesday, targeting oil and other infrastructure, CNN reports. According to CNN, the strikes follow US military action against three Iranian crude oil carriers after Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched ballistic...