Houthi terrorists in Yemen said on Sunday they had launched rockets and drones at British, US, and Israeli ships, the latest in a campaign of attacks on shipping in support of Palestinians in the Gaza war. The Iran-aligned group said it had targeted a British ship and a number of US frigates in the … Read more
The ongoing war in the Gaza Strip has revealed a massive power vacuum in the Middle East. The clearest evidence of this is the chaos caused by terrorist militias scattered across Yemen, Iraq, and Syria, with no deterrent force in sight. This chaos is taking without a single international power – let alone the … Read more
Yemen’s Houthis have targeted a fuel tanker, MADO, in the Red Sea with naval missiles and Israel’s Eilat port and resort region with winged missiles, the group’s military spokesman Yahya Sarea said on Tuesday. MADO is a Marshall-Islands flagged liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tanker heading to Singapore from Saudi Arabia, maritime shipping trackers showed. … Read more
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis targeted what was described as the “US ship Pinocchio” in the Red Sea with missiles, according to a speech by the group’s military spokesman televised early on Tuesday. According to public databases operated by Equasis and the UN’s International Maritime Organization (IMO), the Pinocchio is a Liberian-flagged container ship that is … Read more
A cargo ship abandoned four days ago in the Gulf of Aden after it was hit by missiles fired by Yemen’s Houthis is still floating despite taking in water and could be towed to nearby Djibouti, industry sources said on Wednesday. Rising concerns about shipping Shipping risks have escalated due to repeated drone and … Read more
Yemen’s Houthi militants said on Monday they attacked two US ships, Sea Champion and Navis Fortuna, in the Gulf of Aden. “The targeting operation was carried out with a number of appropriate naval missiles, and the casualties were accurate and direct, thanks to God,” the group’s military spokesman Yahya Sarea said in a statement. … Read more
US forces seized advanced conventional weapons and other lethal aid from Iran that were bound for Houthi-held areas of Yemen on a vessel in the Arabian Sea on Jan. 28, the US Central Command said in a statement on Thursday. Over 200 packages containing medium-range ballistic missile components, explosives, unmanned underwater/surface vehicle (UUV/USV) components, … Read more
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis held a funeral on Saturday for at least 17 terrorists killed during joint US-British air strikes, the Houthi-run Saba news agency said. The Houthis have launched waves of exploding drones and missiles at commercial ships since Nov. 19 in what they say is a response to Israel’s military operations in Gaza, … Read more
Yemen’s Houthis on Thursday said their naval forces targeted an unidentified British merchant vessel in the Red Sea in the group’s campaign to disrupt shipping to protest Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. Earlier on Thursday, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) organization said that an explosion was reported at a distance off a vessel’s … Read more
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency and British maritime security firm Ambrey on Friday said they had received reports of a vessel being struck in the Red Sea near Yemen’s Aden and a fire breaking out aboard. UKMTO received a report of an incident approximately 60 nautical miles south east of Aden … Read more
