Eleven years ago the Houthis already held Perim, the island in the middle of the Red Sea’s southern gate. They had taken Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, in September 2014 and held the Bab el-Mandeb from March 2015. That month, Saudi Arabia and its allies started bombing them, backed by the United States; in October 2015, coalition-backed troops took the island back. The UN estimates the war caused hundred

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