And even fewer can tell you where the Bab el-Mandeb strait is located—or why its fate affects them. So why does it matter?

Here’s how to make a successful one. A suspected attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels targeted a Liberian-flagged tanker in the narrow Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Wednesday, as authorities acknowledged ...

TASS/. Rebels from the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement (the Houthi) have staged a drone attack on a British commercial vessel in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the Al Hadath television channel reported ...

has carried out two attacks on the Chrysalis vessel in the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, Yahya Saree, the movement’s military spokesman, said on the Houthi-owned television channel Al ...

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"Two gunboats and two destroyers have crossed the Suez Canal en route to the Red Sea to help secure the Gulf of Aden and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait," a source from Egypt's Suez Canal Authority told ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Yemen's Houthi rebels targeted two U.S. Navy warships with multiple drones and missiles as they were traveling through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, but the attacks were not ...

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows an airstrip on Mayun Island, also known as Perim Island, in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait off Yemen on Friday, March 28, 2025. (Planet Labs PBC via AP) ...

In the early ’70s, I was aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer when it passed through the Bab el Mandeb Strait into the Red Sea at general quarters. We sailed at GQ because Iranian revolutionaries had ...

This month, Yemen's Houthi group announced the resumption of attacks against Israeli ships passing through the Red Sea, Arabian Sea, the Bab al-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden. In response ...

Two American Navy warships were attacked by Yemen-based Houthi rebels in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a vital shipping route connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. The United States Navy ...