Houthis seize Red Sea island, threatening global oil exports and escalating Iran conflict

Over 46,000 people have fled the escalating fighting in the past week, with displacement potentially doubling; the conflict threatens 40 million people in Yemen's fragile humanitarian situation.

At the southern throat of the Red Sea, where a strip of water seventeen miles wide carries a twelfth of the world's maritime trade, Houthi rebels have seized a small volcanic island and, with it, an outsized claim on the global order. The capture of Mayun Island on Friday — coinciding with drone strikes on Saudi Arabia's inland oil pipeline — marks the most consequential territorial move by the Iranian-backed movement in years, tightening a noose around the energy arteries that fuel much of the industrialized world. What unfolds in this narrow strait now touches everything from oil prices in A

Houthis seize Red Sea island, threatening global oil exports and escalating Iran conflict

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