ALBAWABA - Syrian security forces arrested actor Maan Abdel Haq, best known for his role as "Satif the Blind" in the popular ...

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.

JOHANNESBURG: A strategically important air base and port have been offered to the U.S. as a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz begins and Iran-backed threats target the key Red Sea choke point of the ...

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 vowed Tuesday that a massive US attack will prompt its ally the Houthis to further try to strangle the flow of oil and goods through the region by closing the key Bab el-Mandeb strait. A senior ...

The Houthis have disrupted oil tanker traffic in the region before. Prolonged closers of two crucial chokepoints could send oil prices even higher and severely impact the global economy. Most ...

There is no current plan to shutter the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb, a Houthi group told POLITICO’s E&E News. A key oil shipping route in the Middle East will stay open for now, a Houthi-affiliated group ...

If you’d never heard of the Strait of Hormuz before, you probably have by now. Iran’s effective closure of the waterway, which usually carries about 20% of the world’s oil and gas, has put severe ...

Helima Croft, RBC Capital Markets, joins 'Power Lunch' to discuss a potential ramp up of conflict in the Middle East, what happens if the Houthis escalate tensions and much more. Got a confidential ...

Helima Croft, RBC Capital Markets, joins 'Power Lunch' to discuss a potential ramp up of conflict in the Middle East, what happens if the Houthis escalate tensions and much more. 'Calling themselves ...

Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps has declared the Strait of Hormuz — a waterway through which around 20% of the world's crude oil supply flowed until the war — closed to any ships not explicitly ...

The US warned that Iran-backed Houthi militants could start firing on vessels in the Bab El-Mandeb Strait after Tehran raised the possibility of extending barriers to global shipping during the ...