The Pentagon says the US is not at war with the Houthis, calling its five attacks against the militant group “defensive in nature,” according to spokesperson Sabrina Singh. US forces conducted two airstrikes in the last 24 hours. Thursday morning, US Central Command conducted strikes on two Houthi anti-ship missiles, Singh said, and struck … Read more
TAIPEI — Pro-independence candidate William Lai looks on course to win the Taiwanese presidential election on Saturday in a result that risks inflaming tensions between Beijing and Washington in the South China Sea. The election has been billed as the first major global geopolitical watershed of 2024, pitting the U.S. against China in a battle … Read more
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Western warplanes and guided missiles roared through the skies over Yemen in the early hours of Friday in a dramatic response to the worsening crisis engulfing the region, where the U.S. and its allies are facing a direct confrontation with Iranian-backed militants. The strikes … Read more
United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is slated to brief his Cabinet on potential British and U.S. strikes against Yemen’s Houthi rebels amid the group’s continued attacks in the Red Sea, according to multiple media reports. BBC News reported Sunak is expected to hold a conference call with the Cabinet on Thursday night, and other … Read more
By Seung Min Kim and Zeke Miller | Associated Press WASHINGTON — The White House chief of staff on Tuesday ordered Cabinet members or secretaries to notify his office if they ever can’t perform their duties, as the Biden administration, reeling from learning of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s surprise illness last week, mounts a policy … Read more
WASHINGTON: A Japanese-owned chemical tanker struck Saturday off the coast of India was targeted by a drone “fired from Iran,” the Pentagon said, a sign of expanding risks to commercial shipping beyond the Red Sea.The attack came amid a flurry of drone and missile strikes by Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels on a vital Red Sea … Read more
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. It was February 1991, and the crew of the British frigate HMS Gloucester was scrambling, trying to knock out an Iraqi Silkworm missile heading toward the USS Missouri — a World War II-era battleship recommissioned by former United States President Ronald Reagan. The extreme jolt from the … Read more
