Iran-Backed Houthis Take a Key Port City In Yemen. Traffic Through The Red Sea Could Be Threatened Further.

Fuente: International Business Times

Yemen's Houthi rebels took the port city of Mokha on Thursday. Getty Images Iran-backed Houthi rebels took the port city of Mokha from the internationally recognized government on Thursday, potentially threatening traffic through the Red Sea. The city is some 50 miles from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a key waterway through which more than 12% of global oil transits, and to which several Gulf countries have resorted as the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed as a result of the war between the U.