Along the narrow straits where the Red Sea meets the Gulf of Aden, a year of uneasy quiet has given way once more to the oldest of human contests — the struggle to hold ground that the world cannot afford to ignore. Iran-backed Houthi forces launched a coordinated ground offensive Thursday in Yemen's southwestern provinces of Taiz and Hodeidah, seeking to seize ports and high terrain that command the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, one of global shipping's most critical passages. The July collapse of a fragile truce has now claimed approximately 129 lives and driven hundreds of families from their coast
Houthis intensify offensive for Red Sea control as Yemen truce collapses
Approximately 129 deaths reported as of Friday including dozens of military casualties on both sides and civilians killed in fighting; hundreds of families displaced from coastal cities Hodeidah and Mokha.