Oil tanker on fire in Gulf of Aden after Houthi missile attack

An oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden is on fire after a missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi militants, in the latest incident linked to the Iran-backed group in the key shipping route. The operator of the British oil tanker Marlin Luanda said Friday the vessel had been “struck by a missile in the Gulf of Aden after transiting the Red Sea,

What I learned when I met Houthi rebels in Yemen

When I met the Houthi rebel leaders in ‎Yemen in 2014 at a high school ‎graduation ceremony to celebrate the ‎most accomplished students in Yemen, ‎they had us repeatedly chant, “Allah is the greatest. Death to America. Death to ‎Israel.