The Houthi movement and the United States exchanged strikes over Red Sea shipping from late 2023 until an Oman-mediated understanding in May 2025. Through the 2026 war neither has struck the other, and the movement's campaign has been against Saudi Arabia. Vigil records the relationship as dormant, not resolved.
ترتيب متماثل: يُقرأ بالطريقة نفسها من أي من الجانبين. يُحرَّر مرة واحدة، في سجل واحد.
الترتيب
- الحالة
- DormantFormally in force but not operating — a treaty nobody invokes, a body that does not meet.Last material change: 2025-05.
- ما يغطيه
- الدفاعمكافحة الإرهابفئات وثّقت المصادر أن الترتيب يشملها. ليست مقياسًا: فالعلاقة التي تغطي عددًا أكبر منها توصف بتفصيل أكبر، ولا تُعدّ أرسخ.
ملخص
From November 2023 the Houthi movement attacked commercial shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden; the United States led a coalition naval response from December 2023 and conducted strikes in Yemen from January 2024, and a further campaign in March–May 2025 that ended with an Oman-mediated understanding under which the two sides stopped targeting each other. The movement did not renounce action against other parties. Through the 2026 war it engaged selectively against Israel and, from July, opened a campaign against Saudi shipping and territory; the United States Fifth Fleet continues to command the coalition structures whose water the movement now sits beside, and United States officials were reported in September 2026 to have offered Saudi Arabia intelligence support while declining direct strikes on the Houthis. No strike by either party on the other has been recorded since May 2025.
لماذا يهم
Whether the Bab el-Mandeb advance becomes a coalition problem rather than a Saudi one turns on this relationship. The movement has kept Saudi shipping as its declared exception and left everyone else's alone; the United States has kept its war to Iran and left Yemen alone. Either boundary failing would change what the outlet of the Hormuz bypass depends on.
الاتفاقات
- Oman-mediated United States–Houthi understanding · وُقّع في 2025-05
Announced by Oman as a mutual undertaking not to target each other, including United States vessels in the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb. No text published; it did not cover the movement's action against other parties.
الأحداث ذات الصلة
- حركة الحوثيين تفرض حصارًا على الملاحة من الموانئ السعودية وإليها يوليو 2026
Maritime · Energy
- إعلان تحالف دفاعي بحري متعدد الجنسيات بقيادة السعودية في الرياض 30 يوليو 2026
Maritime · Diplomatic
- حركة الحوثيين تسيطر على ساحل البحر الأحمر الجنوبي وتصل إلى باب المندب 10 – 11 سبتمبر 2026
Territorial change · Maritime
المنظمات
البنى التي تعمل هذه العلاقة من خلالها. ليست أطرافًا فيها — فالطرفان هما الجهتان الفاعلتان المذكورتان أعلاه.
الأماكن
علامات ينشرها هذا الملف أصلًا. ولا يضيف هذا السجل أي دقة جغرافية خاصة به.
ما لا يزال مجهولًا
- The two parties characterise the 2023–25 campaign incompatibly — the movement as action against shipping linked to Israel and its supporters, the United States (which designated the movement a foreign terrorist organisation in 2025) as attacks on international shipping. Vigil adopts neither characterisation.
- The content of the May 2025 understanding is known only from Oman's announcement and the parties' statements; whether it covers the coalition task forces as such is not established.
- The reported September 2026 United States decision not to strike the Houthis rests on unnamed officials; no government has published it.
قراءات تدعمها الأدلة أيضًا
- The absence of a United States strike since May 2025 is consistent with an observed understanding, with a deliberate boundary around the Iran war, and with a lack of occasion; the record does not choose.
مُدرجة لأن تقييم السجل نفسه ليس التقييم الوحيد الذي تسمح به مصادره — لا بوصفها تحوّطًا من التقييم أعلاه.
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التقييم حتى — 2026-09-13 آخر مراجعة — 2026-09-14