The Houthis launched a major offensive along Yemen's Red Sea coast in recent weeks, seizing a strategic port city and islands controlling the Bab al-Mandab strait, a vital global shipping route. The militia's escalation follows Saudi airstrikes on Sana'a airport in mid-July and has displaced over 100,000 Yemenis, reigniting a years-long conflict with Saudi Arabia and worsening Yemen's humanitarian crisis, where 22 million people require aid.
The Houthis have expanded operations into Yemen's eastern oil-rich provinces controlled by the Saudi-backed internationally recognized government. The renewed fighting threatens global energy supplies and prices, as the militia has targeted Saudi oil infrastructure in retaliation for airstrikes on Houthi-held areas.
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