The fragile balances of East Africa, which has been frequently associated with political crises recently, the security of the ...

Right now, the ships of Operation Highmast – the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales and her group – will be headed for the Bab-El-Mandeb chokepoint at the south end of the Red Sea. This eight ...

TEHRAN - As we noted during his stay in the region, President Trump forwent wisely tinkering with geographical names and ...

Despite declaring independence from Somalia in 1991, Somaliland is unrecognized by foreign governments. Now, it hopes the US ...

In the dry, sun-scorched deserts of Ethiopia, a slow but astonishing transformation has been unfolding since 2005. A ...

In a narrow, partial sense, air power unaccompanied by a ground offensive may have nudged Houthi calculations toward an ...

The U.K. Defense Ministry described the site attacked as “a cluster of buildings, used by the Houthis to manufacture drones of the type used to attack ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, located ...

Addis Abeba — Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has called for greater regional cooperation to safeguard the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, warning that terrorist threats in these vital ...

Both America and China have their only permanent military bases in Africa at this strategic spot on the African side of the Bab al-Mandab strait, where the Red Sea meets the Gulf of Aden (see map).

The Houthis’ strikes ushered in a crisis in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden’s Bab al-Mandeb Strait, dramatically disrupting business as usual in the passage. There was a brief pause in ...

as well as international waters in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Oman, and the Persian Gulf, and ensures an EU naval presence in the area where numerous Houthi attacks ...