The Yemeni armed forces launched retaliatory missile and drone strikes against Saudi Aramco facilities after Riyadh carried out overnight airstrikes on Hudaydah​​​​​​.

The strategic importance of the Bab al-Mandab Strait, combined with Yemen's growing missile and drone capabilities, has fundamentally reshaped regional security calculations, according to a Yemeni analyst.

The emerging strategic equation between the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandab Strait has fundamentally reshaped the balance of power in West Asia, says a Yemeni analyst.

As US-backed Saudi military aggression against Yemen intensifies, the Yemeni armed forces and the resistance have warned they are prepared to close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in coordination with the Strait of Hormuz, a move that could send oil prices soaring to $200 per barrel and trigger severe disruption across the global economy.

US broke the MoU through military aggression and economic warfare, leaving Iran no choice but lawful self-defense, so now the Strait of Hormuz is Iran's sovereign lever to dismantle the old US-dominated order and establish a new regional reality where outsiders have no role to play.

An official in Somaliland reportedly expresses the readiness of the breakaway region in northern Somalia to expand its ties with Israel if Yemen closes the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait.

The Strait of Hormuz, together with the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Strait of Malacca, forms the world's energy transit triangle.