News Summary

• The Iran war is no longer confined to the Persian Gulf.
• Tehran has signaled it can open a second front at the Bab el Mandeb Strait.
• Across from Yemen sits a fractured corridor in East Africa that has been quietly reorganizing for years.
• The same Somali region at the center of this contest is directly connected to the U.S. through migration and diaspora networks, especially in Minnesota and Michigan.
• Those connections are not theoretical.
• The scale of fraud could reach the billions of dollars.