The runway on Mayyun is about 1,800 metres long. It crosses the volcanic island near the point where the Red Sea narrows into Bab al-Mandab, dividing the strait into an eastern channel beside Yemen a…
Yemen’s Bab al-Mandab War: How the Houthis Turned Saudi Arabia’s Oil Escape Route Into a Second Front
The capture of Mokha and Mayyun has placed the southern Red Sea inside the Iran war and exposed the failure of eleven years of Saudi intervention in Yemen.
