Middle East: Red Sea Tensions Grow as Saudi Houthi Clashes Open New Front The Red Sea has long been a strategic chokepoint for global trade and a focal point for regional rivalries.
For decades, tensions between Saudi Arabia and Yemen's Houthi rebels have simmered just below the surface, fueled by competing claims to territory, ideology, and regional influence.
Understanding the Roots of Conflict in Yemen Yemen's conflict has its roots in the 1960s, when North Yemen merged with South Yemen to form a unified state. However, tensions between the two regions continued to simmer.