How Houthi capture of Bab el-Mandeb 3,000 km away could hit India hard
An 18-hour blitzkrieg along Yemen’s Red Sea coast has put the Iranian-backed Shia militant group Ansar Allah, better known as the Houthis, on the cusp of controlling the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a narrow strip of water connecting the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and, beyond it, the Arabian Sea. Control of the 29-km-wide…