🔺🔻Newsweek: Riyadh turns to Washington again to confront Yemen 🔹As the Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed due to the U.S.-Iran war, the Houthis of Yemen have turned the port of Mocha and the island of Meyun in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait into a battlefield, making it the second vital chokepoint of global trade. 🔹This rapid advance has complicated calculations for the White House and forced Saudi Arabia, which only five weeks ago signed a defense pact in Mecca with Turkey and Pakistan, to turn to Washington once more to confront the Houthis.
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Newsweek: Riyadh turns to Washington again to confront Yemen
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Original report: Akharin KhabarOriginal publication Editorial policy
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