Yemen’s Houthis have captured the strategic Greater and Lesser Hanish islands in the southern Red Sea, tightening their grip around the Bab al-Mandeb shipping route, government and Houthi officials told the Associated Press.

Yemen's Houthis seized on Friday a key Red Sea island in the middle of the Bab al-Mandab strait, completing a push to take control of a waterway crucial to Saudi oil exports, a…

Rapid advance of Iran-backed force threatens key alternative shipping route to Strait of Hormuz.

The advance comes after the Houthis captured the strategic port city of Mokha Thursday farther north along Yemen’s Red Sea.