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The Situation in the Red Sea Is Not Improving

Houthis launched their biggest attack yet overnight

(Newser) - Tensions in the Red Sea ratcheted up overnight, with the US and UK repelling the biggest attack to-date by Yemen's Houthi rebels on the crucial international shipping route. The BBC and NBC News cite the US and UK militaries as saying the Iran-backed militants launched at least 21 drones...

US-Led Coalition Gives 'Final Warning' to Houthis

Stop attacking ships in the Red Sea or bear the consequences, coalition says

(Newser) - After about two dozen attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea since October, a coalition of mostly Western countries has warned Yemen's Houthis against further aggression. The US, UK, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, and New Zealand issued a statement Wednesday saying the...

Pentagon: Navy Sank 3 Houthi Boats, Killing Their Crews

Militants had attacked container vessel in Red Sea, Central Command says

(Newser) - Navy helicopters attacked four small boats in the Red Sea carrying Houthi militants on Sunday after coming under fire, US military officials said, sinking three of them. The boats' crews were killed, US Central Command reported, after militants attacked and tried to board a Denmark-owned Maersk Hangzhou container vessel. Navy...

Iran Hints at Closing Waters to US as Punishment Over Gaza

Revolutionary Guards commander doesn't say how it could shut the Mediterranean

(Newser) - The Houthis, a group in Yemen tied to Iran, has been attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea in what it says is an operation to support Gaza. An Iranian military leader now has suggested a broadening of that effort that would close waterways to US traffic as punishment over...

US-Led Security Force Will Patrol Red Sea

Defense chief Lloyd Austin announces multinational mission after Houthi strikes on ships

(Newser) - The US and a host of other nations are creating a new force to protect ships transiting the Red Sea that have come under attack by drones and ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen. "This is an international challenge that demands collective action," Defense Secretary Lloyd...

A New Supply-Chain Woe Is Percolating

Shipping giants, along with BP, are pausing travel through Red Sea due to Houthi attacks

(Newser) - The editor in chief at shipping journal Lloyd's List on Monday issued a somber prediction to CNBC : that we'd see "fairly seismic activity in terms of the implications for supply chains" if the shipping giants who have recently paused travel through the Red Sea maintain that stance....

US, UK Shoot Down Dozen- Plus Drones Over Red Sea

Houthi rebels in Yemen attack vessels as Israel-Hamas war threatens to spread

(Newser) - Houthi rebels in Yemen have launched a series of attacks on vessels in the Red Sea, one of the world's busiest shipping routes, and have launched drones and missiles targeting Israel, as the Israel-Hamas war threatens to spread. US Central Command said that the destroyer USS Carney "successfully engaged...

Houthi Rebels Fire at Yet Another Tanker in Red Sea

And this one isn't linked to Israel

(Newser) - A missile fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels slammed into a Norwegian-flagged tanker in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen near a key maritime chokepoint, the rebels and authorities said Tuesday. The assault on the oil and chemical tanker Strinda expands a campaign by the Iranian-backed rebels targeting...

Pentagon: US Ships Were Attacked in Red Sea

Houthi rebels report firing on two vessels but don't mention US

(Newser) - An American warship and multiple commercial ships came under attack Sunday in the Red Sea, the Pentagon said. Yemen's Houthi rebels later claimed attacks on two ships they described as being linked to Israel but did not acknowledge targeting a US Navy vessel. The attack potentially marked a major...

US Navy Puts Kibosh on Latest Tanker Hijacking

5 armed men jumped ship, but didn't get very far; 2 missiles fired in retaliation don't come very close

(Newser) - The US Navy responded to Sunday's seizure of an Israeli-linked tanker off the coast of Yemen, and took on some less-than-successful missile fire for its trouble. As the New York Times reports, the destroyer USS Mason and other ships involved in anti-piracy efforts in the region approached the hijacked...

Houthi Rebels Seized Israeli Ship in Crucial Shipping Lane

Yemen group's action ignites fears that the war could spread to new maritime front

(Newser) - A helicopter Houthi attack on an Israel-linked ship in the Red Sea highlights the danger now lurking in one of the world's key shipping routes as the Israel-Hamas war rages, as well as the rebels' tactics mirroring those of its chief sponsor, Iran. While Tehran has denied aiding the...

78 Die in Stampede at Event to Distribute Aid

At least 73 others injured in Yemen tragedy

(Newser) - A crowd of people apparently spooked by gunfire and an electrical explosion stampeded at an event to distribute financial aid in Yemen’s capital late Wednesday, killing at least 78 and injuring at least 73 others, according to eyewitnesses and Houthi rebel officials. Abdel-Rahman Ahmed and Yahia Mohsen, who witnessed...

US Navy to Begin Task Force to Patrol Red Sea
US Navy Makes a
Move in the Red Sea
Apr 13, 2022 1:10 PM CDT

US Navy Makes a Move in the Red Sea

Says new task force will patrol the body of water

(Newser) - The US Navy said Wednesday it will begin a new task force with allied countries to patrol the Red Sea after a series of attacks attributed to Yemen's Houthi rebels in a waterway that's essential to global trade. The AP reports Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, who oversees the...

Airstrike on Prison Kills at Least 70
Airstrike on Prison
Kills at Least 70
Jan 21, 2022 12:20 PM CST

Airstrike on Prison Kills at Least 70

Death toll in Yemen expected to grow

(Newser) - The health minister in the rebel government set up by Yemen’s Houthi rebels says an airstrike on a rebel-run detention facility in the country's north early on Friday killed at least 70 detainees. The minister, Taha al-Motawakel, told the AP in the rebel-held Yemeni capital of Sanaa that...

Rare Drone Attack Kills 3 in Abu Dhabi

Yemeni Houthi rebels claim responsibility

(Newser) - A rare attack in the United Arab Emirates killed at least three people Monday and the commander of American forces at a nearby base says they are ready to assist UAE authorities if needed. Authorities say that in a drone attack claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels, three tanker trucks...

Abandoned Red Sea Tanker Is Disaster Waiting to Happen

It's on the verge of dumping out four times as much oil as the Exxon Valdez

(Newser) - A ghost ship holding more than a million barrels of crude oil is rotting in the Red Sea. It could just sink. Or it could explode. And if either of those things happens, millions of people will be without water, on top of the environmental devastation, the Guardian reports. It...

Embassy to Americans in Saudi Capital: 'Stay Alert'

Kingdom claims missile or drone interception in Riyadh, maybe launched by Yemen's Houthi rebels

(Newser) - Saudi Arabia said Saturday it intercepted an apparent missile or drone attack over its capital, Riyadh, amid the kingdom's yearslong war against neighboring Yemen's Houthi rebels. Social media users posted video of what appeared to be an explosion in the air over Riyadh. Saudi state TV quoted authorities...

Critics Raise Alarm on 11th-Hour Foreign Policy Move
Critics Raise Alarm on
11th-Hour Foreign Policy Move
the rundown
Jan 12, 2021 11:10 AM CST

Critics Raise Alarm on 11th-Hour Foreign Policy Move

Designation of Houthi rebels as terrorists could make it harder to deliver food amid crisis

(Newser) - The Trump administration just made two big foreign policy moves. The one that drew most of the headlines was the designation of Cuba as a sponsor of terrorism. The other, though, is causing plenty of consternation on Capitol Hill and among humanitarian groups. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that...

The New Cabinet Arrived by Plane. Then an Explosion

At least 16 people are said to be dead after a blast in Aden, Yemen

(Newser) - At least 16 people were killed Wednesday and another 60 wounded when a blast occurred at the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden. The explosion happened a short time after the country's newly formed Cabinet arrived by plane; no one on that plane was killed or injured,...

Pompeo Blames Iran
Pompeo: It's Iran's Fault
Sep 14, 2019 4:30 PM CDT

Pompeo: It's Iran's Fault

The Secretary of State points a finger after drone strike in Saudi Arabia

(Newser) - Forget Yemen. This was all Iran. That was the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's take Saturday after drone attacks struck Saudi Arabian oil facilities and choked half the country's crude production, the Wall Street Journal reports. Pompeo tweeted that it was "an unprecedented attack on the world'...

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