The New Red Sea Wars mloukili Tue, 10/06/2026 - 11:25 Latest Updates Africa Asia-Pacific Europe Latin America & Caribbean Middle East & North Africa United States Global Issues & Institutions My Reading List Op-Ed / Africa 06 October 2026 1 minutes The New Red Sea Wars Originally published in Foreign Affairs Conflicts in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa Have Become Inseparable Share BlueSky Email Facebook Linkedin Twitter Whatsapp Save Print Alan Boswell Project Director, Horn of Africa https://twitter.com/alanboswell Related Tags Horn of Africa Gulf and Arabian Peninsula On June 3, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the U.S. Congress that the fighting that had raged for three years in Sudan was now a “proxy war” and blamed Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates