Can the Houthis hold on to Yemen’s strategic western coast?
- Houthi coastal advances face hurdles: geography, local resistance and fierce government counterattacks.
- Following rapid territorial gains on Yemen’s Red Sea coast, the Houthi movement’s ability to maintain control over the strategic Bab al-Mandeb area now faces major military and logistical tests.
- The military escalation, which has intensified over the past two and a half months, recently altered a map of control that had remained almost static for the past four years.
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- Houthi coastal advances face hurdles: geography, local resistance and fierce government counterattacks.
- Following rapid territorial gains on Yemen’s Red Sea coast, the Houthi movement’s ability to maintain control over the strategic Bab al-Mandeb area now faces major military and logistical tests.
- The military escalation, which has intensified over the past two and a half months, recently altered a map of control that had remained almost static for the past four years.
Sources: Al Jazeera