A top official in Yemen’s United Nations-backed government said Houthi militants who control much of the country can be defeated in six to twelve months with foreign support, potentially easing threats to key trade routes through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

The conflict in the Middle East took a new turn as Yemen’s Houthi movement announced that it had fired a hypersonic ballistic missile at Tel Aviv. According to their statement, the weapon used was identified as the Palestine-2,

"We have just delivered a powerful strike on numerous terrorist targets of the Houthi terror organization in Sanaa as part of Operation 'Pass the Parcel,'" Katz wrote. The air force on Thursday afternoon undertook its largest and farthest strikes against Yemen's Houthis in the war,

Al-Alimi argues that the changing geopolitics of the region have given Washington new incentives to get involved.

Yemeni President Rashad Al-Alimi warns the UN General Assembly: 'Anyone who underestimates this militia today should imagine what will happen tomorrow when the Red Sea and maritime trade routes become permanent hostages in the hands of terror.

A ship traveling off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden came under attack early on Tuesday, officials said, though no one was hurt. The captain of the vessel heard a splash and explosion in the vicinity of the vessel,

A ship traveling off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden came under attack early on Tuesday, officials said, though no one was hurt.

Saudi and British envoys pledged millions to boost the coastguard of Yemen's anti-Houthi gov't, with support from 35 countries, to protect Red Sea and Gulf of Aden trade routes from Houthi terrorism.