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Yemen's Houthi rebels chat as they check their weapons during a mobilization campaign in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (AP Photo)

Yemen risks a return to civil war as Iran-backed rebels target a crucial shipping route

By Cara Anna and Fatma Khaled - Associated Press

Houthi supporters chant slogans during a rally against the Saudi-led coalition in Sanaa, Yemen, on Friday, July 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman) **FILE**

Houthis’ Red Sea attacks pressure Saudis to back ground war Riyadh has spent 3 years trying to avoid

By Jacob Wirtschafter - Special to The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump attend the dignified transfer of four U.S. service members recently killed in the Middle East, Wednesday, July 22, 2026, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump threatens Houthis, Iran with ‘major military punishment’ for Red Sea attacks

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree speaks at a rally against the U.S. and Israel in Sanaa, Yemen, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman, File)

Houthi blockade opens new front in Middle East war even as mediators work to salvage peace

By Vaughn Cockayne, Tom Howell Jr. and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Oil tankers and cargo ships line up in the Strait of Hormuz as seen from Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

U.S. military is poised to blockade Iranian ports, while Tehran threatens ports in the Mideast

By Samy Magdy, Julia Frankel and Mike Corder - Associated Press

Houthi supporters shout slogans during a rally against Israel and the United States' war in Iran, in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

As Iran ceasefire wobbles, Houthis hold next potential choke point on oil, commerce

By Jacob Wirtschafter and Waseem Abu Mahadi and Jacob Wirtschafter - Special to The Washington Times

A police officer stands guard as Mumbai Police takes charge of the accused Somali pirates brought by the Indian navy on its warship INS Kolkata at Naval Dockyard in Mumbai, India, Saturday, March 23, 2024. The Indian navy had said last Saturday that it had taken control of the hijacked Maltese-flagged MV Ruen bulk carrier and that all 35 pirates on board had surrendered. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) **FILE**

Somali pirates stage comeback with Houthi support

By Joseph Hammond - Special to The Washington Times

Houthi attacks on shipping illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Sinking and sanctions: How we can stop Houthi attacks for good

By Carl O. Schuster

This black-and-white image released by the U.S. military's Central Command shows the fire aboard the bulk carrier True Confidence after a missile attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday, March 6, 2024. A missile attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels on a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday killed three of its crew members and forced survivors to abandon the vessel, the U.S. military said. It was the first fatal strike in a campaign of assaults by the Iranian-backed group over Israel's war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (U.S. Central Command via AP)

Analysis: First fatal attack on shipping by Yemen’s Houthi rebels escalates risk for reeling Mideast

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Yemen’s Houthis, Iranian-backed rebel group illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Houthis have a lot to gain, little to lose from their maritime operations

By Emily Milliken

Then-U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, who heads the Navy's Bahrain-based 5th Fleet, speaks at an event at the International Defense Exhibition and Conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Feb. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

Iran is ‘directly involved’ in Yemen Houthi rebel ship attacks, U.S. Navy’s Mideast chief tells AP

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Houthi fighters and tribesmen stage a rally against the U.S. and the U.K. strikes on Houthi-run military sites near Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. (AP Photo)

Biden designates Houthis as terrorist organization, shifting from 2021 decision

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and other warships crossed the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf on Sunday, Nov. 26, 2023, as part of a wider American deployment in the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas war. The Eisenhower was accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea, the guided-missile destroyers USS Gravely and the USS Stethem and the French frigate Languedoc. (Information Technician Second Class Ruskin Naval/U.S. Navy via AP)

Houthis goad U.S. Navy in Middle East, step up campaign against Israel, shipping

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A worn-out list of registered names for aid by Relief International, part of the World Food Program, is posted in Aden, Yemen in this July 23, 2018 photo. The U.N.’s World Food Program has 5,000 distribution sites across the country targeting 10 million people a month with food baskets but says it can monitor only 20 percent of the deliveries. Armed factions on all sides of Yemen conflict are diverting aid for their own purposes, worsening the country’s humanitarian crisis, an AP investigation found. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Fighters siphon off food as Yemenis starve

By Maggie Michael - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, March 21, 2015 file photo, Members of a militia group loyal to Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, known as the Popular Committees, chew qat, Yemen's favorite drug, as they sit next to their tank, guarding a major intersection in Aden, Yemen. Yemen’s Shiite rebels, backed by supporters of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, have seized the third-largest city after capturing the capital Sanaa in September, effectively splitting the country in half and hindering U.S. efforts to combat a powerful local al-Qaida affiliate. Hadi, a close U.S. ally, fled house arrest in Sanaa last month and has set up a base in the port city of Aden, the former capital of the once-independent south. (AP Photo/Hamza Hendawi, File)

NEWS GUIDE: The crisis in Yemen

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

A Houthi Shiite fighter wearing an army uniform chants slogans during a demonstration to show support for his comrades in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Jan. 23, 2015. Thousands of protesters demonstrated Friday across Yemen, some supporting the Shiite rebels who seized the capital and others demanding the country's south secede after the nation's president and Cabinet resigned. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Yemen’s Shiite rebels growing in power amid Obama uncertainty on Iran, experts fear

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times