Yemen’s Houthi rebels have seized the strategic islands of Greater and Lesser Hanish in the southern Red Sea, bolstering the Iranian-backed rebels’ ability to control a key maritime shipping route.

The group has made sweeping gains along Yemen's Red Sea coast after conducting a large-scale military operation aimed at controlling the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

Despite pressure mounting for a clear way out of the war, meaningful negotiations between the U.S. and Iran remain stalled. Here’s what each side has said regarding the status of peace talks, and how experts predict Iranian officials could use the Houthis’ disruption in the Red Sea to their benefit.

Yemen faces a potential return to civil war as the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels are trying to prevent neighboring Saudi Arabia from using a crucial shipping route.

Houthi forces are rapidly fortifying newly captured positions along Yemen’s western coastline as Saudi Arabia weighs how to respond to the Iran-backed terror group’s lightning advance toward one of the world’s most important shipping routes.

The capture of an island and coastal town tightens the militants’ grip on the Bab al-Mandeb strait, a crucial alternative to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan reports on Iran-backed Houthi rebel gains in the strategic Red Sea region. Hudson Institute senior fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs joins to discuss President Trump

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Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have captured a strategic island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. The move threatens Saudi oil exports through a key commercial lane. And Saudi Arabia said it shut down a major oil pipeline as a precaution after it came under attack.

Attacks affecting Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline and insecurity around Bab el Mandeb are weakening alternatives designed to keep crude moving when Hormuz is disrupted The renewed confrontation between Washington and Tehran is increasingly being fought not only through military pressure but through the energy market,

Saudi Arabia held talks with Israel, mediated by US Central Command, on ways to help Riyadh counter the Houthi military with intelligence support, according to an Israeli media report published on Tuesday.