Yemen's Houthi،s fired a ballistic missile Thursday at a Liberian-flagged container ship in the Red Sea, U.S. defense officials said. The attack happened west of Al-Hudaydah. The U.S. defense officials identified the targeted container ship as the Koi, a Bermuda-owned vessel. The off...
The European Union plans to launch a naval mission in the Red Sea within three weeks to help defend cargo ships against attacks by Yemen's Houthis, the bloc's top diplomat said Wednesday. Josep Borrell, EU foreign policy chief, said he wanted the mission to be up and running by F...
China on Tuesday said it supports Yemen's sovereignty and territorial integrity, urging for a political solution to the raging conflict in the Red Sea. In a meeting with Mansour Baggash, the under-secretary for political affairs of Yemen's Foreign Ministry, Chinese Vice Foreign M...
UK Royal Navy vessels in the Red Sea reportedly lack the missile systems to hit land targets in Yemen, forcing Royal Air Force warplanes to travel thousands of miles to hit Houthi positions.The UK has joined the US in efforts to secure commercial shipping routes in the Red Sea following ...
Yemen's internationally recognized government on Sunday said "defensive" U.S. and British strikes on the Houthis are not enough and called for U.S. and Saudi support to "eliminate" the Houthi ability to stage attacks on Red Sea shipping. Defensive operations are n...
Chinese officials have asked their Iranian counterparts to help rein in attacks on ships in the Red Sea by the Iran-backed Houthis or risk harming business relations with Beijing, four Iranian sources and a diplomat familiar with the matter said. The Iranian sources said that the discuss...
The U.N. has paused the final stage of the scrapping of the Safer — a decaying floating storage and offloading tanker (FSO) — off Yemen because of increasing security risk in the Red Sea, the organization said on Thursday. "Regional developments have resulted in un...
Yemen's Houthi group has ordered all U.S. and British staff of the United Nations and its agencies to leave the country within a month, a U.N. official told AFP. In a letter dated January 20 and shared on social media, the authorities in the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa ...
A Russian diplomat said on Wednesday that strikes by the U.S. and U.K. on Yemen, launched in response to Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, may cross out two years of settlement efforts in the war-torn Arab country. Speaking in an interview with the Russian state news agency TASS, the Russia...
Two U.S. Navy Seals have been declared dead by military officials, 10 days after they went missing in the Gulf of Aden during a mission targeting Iranian weapons deliveries to the Houthi rebels in Yemen. The Seals had been reported missing in the days following the mission, which took pl...
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has said the kingdom is “very worried” that tensions in the Red Sea amid attacks by Yemen’s Houthis and US strikes on Houthi targets could spiral out of control and escalate the conflict in the region. “I mean, of course, we a...
Commanders from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Lebanon's Hezbollah group are on the ground in Yemen helping to direct and oversee Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping, four regional and two Iranian sources told Reuters. Iran stepped up its weapons supplies to ...
A US-owned ship in the Gulf of Aden came under attack Wednesday from a bomb-carrying drone launched by Yemen's Houthi, officials said. The attack on the Genco Picardy represented the second in recent days, targeting vessels directly linked to America after US-led strikes ta...
A missile hit a Greek-owned ship off Yemen, Ambrey, a maritime risk management company, said on Tuesday. Ambrey released a statement confirming the incident. "A Malta-flagged, Greek-owned bulk carrier was targeted and impacted with a missile while transiting the southern Red Sea nor...
At least six more oil tankers were steering clear of the southern Red Sea on Monday, as disruptions on the vital route for energy shipping increased in the wake of U.S.-led strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. Following the strikes, the U.S.-led Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) based i...
Britain could strike Houthi targets in Yemen again if the group continues to assault ships in the Red Sea, the foreign secretary has suggested. Lord Cameron warned the Iran-linked fighters could force up prices in Britain if they are allowed to block the passage of container ships in the...
Daily Brief 11 Jan 2024 The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted the US draft resolution condemning the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. Four countries, including Russia, China and Algeria, abstained. Earlier, the UNSC rejected three Russian proposals to amend the text o...
Members of the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday called on Yemen's Houthis to halt their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, saying they are illegal and threaten regional stability, freedom of navigation and global food supplies. Addressing the council's first f...
Sri Lanka's navy is preparing to join a US-led operation to protect merchant vessels sailing in the Red Sea against attacks by Houthis, a Sri Lankan navy spokesman said on Tuesday. The Houthi attacks have targeted commercial shipping vessels transiting through the Bab el-Mandeb Strai...
Two officers of the Yemeni government forces were killed on Saturday in a roadside blast in the southern province of Abyan, a military official told Xinhua. The local military official said that the explosion occurred when a military vehicle carrying the officers and soldiers was passing...
