Iran could retaliate against a U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz by directing its Houthi allies to disrupt another critical global shipping route, a senior Middle East analyst warned Sunday.

The Houthis’ decision to launch a missile at Israel for the first time since the war with Iran began is a clear, deliberate, and strategic signal. If the conflict intensifies, the Houthis are unlikely ...

Even as US President Donald Trump struggles to have the Strait of Hormuz opened and relieved from the wrath of Iran's retaliatory fire, another key waterway — Bab al-Mandab or Bab el-Mandeb — known as ...

Yemeni fishermen sail in the waters overlooking the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait on April 5, 2026. The fragile U.S.-Iran cease-fire is being tested by reports of Tehran’s continued chokehold on the ...

Iran's effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz in response to a massive US-Israel bombing campaign has wreaked havoc on world energy markets and sent oil prices soaring. Things could get even worse, ...

For four weeks and counting, the world has been watching one narrow body of water in the Persian Gulf. Now, its alternative is also encircled in red. This satellite image shows the oil infrastructure ...

Hours after Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) threatened to target the US and its partners' infrastructure, a senior Iranian source told Reuters on Tuesday (local time) that if the ...