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

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.

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

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 ...