article_snippet: Brent crude oil prices increased by 6 per cent, for example, since many of the world’s oil shipments pass through or past the Bab el-Mandab Strait linking the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden.
article_snippet: Anticipating the worsening situation, British elite soldiers — in Yemen to train government troops to fight Al Qaeda, which has established Yemen most dangerous branch in Yemen
article_snippet: As Western forces left, the rebels — trained, armed and funded by Iran — made further advances in the south of Yemen.
article_snippet: This week, Aden — once one of the British Empire’s most important ports for ships heading to imperial India, and a haven of stability patrolled by officers in pith helmets and colonial shorts — was raked with the sound of gunfire.
article_snippet: Just 35 miles to the north, Shia rebels had seized Al Anad air base, which until recently had been used by American counter-terrorism forces to fight terrorists.
article_snippet: Yemen has a chronic terrorism problem, simply because such a failed state is an ideal operating ground for terrorists.
article_snippet: Yemen is not only home to the most tactically lethal branch of Al Qaeda but now ISIS has a foothold there too.
article_snippet: Before the U.S. military moved out of Yemen, the U.S. military were allowed to launch drone strikes on Al Qaeda.
article_snippet: But now, in the U.S. military absence, terrorists are no longer being targeted so effectively, and will only flourish as a result.