Mysterious airstrip appears on Indian Ocean island in key shipping location - A mysterious airstrip being built on a remote ...

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi movement has released the crew of a cargo ship more than a year after its fighters hijacked the ...

Separatists are consolidating control after taking over an island known as the "Galapagos" of the Indian Ocean, at the same time further complicating the long-running conflict in Yemen.

The airstrip on Abd al-Kuri Island, which rises out of the Indian Ocean near the mouth of the ... to Europe — has halved under attacks by Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.

Any ship passing through the Suez Canal to or from the Indian Ocean has to come this way. The Houthis - who are fighting Yemen's Saudi-backed government - have declared themselves part of an "axis ...