Shipping lanes off Yemen have seen a spike in successful Houthi attacks lately. They’ve hit several commercial ships in recent weeks and even sank one of them. The Iran-backed rebels are also getting their drone boats out to sea more often. The Houthis have scored a string of successful hits in recent weeks on commercial […]
A US Navy carrier strike group that’s fought the Houthis for months is finally returning home. The Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group left the Middle East on Saturday, the Pentagon said. It will soon be replaced by the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group. The US Navy carrier strike group that’s been battling the Houthis […]
A US Navy carrier strike group that’s fought the Houthis for months is finally returning home. The Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group left the Middle East on Saturday, the Pentagon said. It will soon be replaced by the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group. The US Navy carrier strike group that’s been battling the Houthis […]
By Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) – Urgent action must be taken in the Red Sea to stop attacks on merchant shipping by Yemen’s Houthis, leading industry groups said on Wednesday, after the sinking of a second ship. Iran-aligned Houthi militants first launched drone and missile strikes on the important trade route in November in what […]
The Houthis say it has been sunk several times in the past months. Its captain says they are eating cookies and tacos. So, what really happened to the USS Dwight D Eisenhower? The truth is, one of the oldest ships in the US Navy is still up and running, or afloat and sailing, despite the […]
CAIRO (Reuters) -Yemen’s Houthis said on Sunday that they had attacked two civilian ships along with an American destroyer in the Red Sea and Arabian Sea, their latest effort to disrupt shipping in what they say is support for Palestinians in Gaza. In a statement, the Houthi military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, said the militant group […]
The Houthis struck a commercial vessel with an uncrewed surface vessel on Wednesday. It’s the first time the rebels have scored a hit with a USV amid their ongoing Red Sea attacks. Past attempts have been unsuccessful. The Houthis used an uncrewed surface vessel to strike a commercial ship in the Red Sea on Wednesday, the […]
Yemen’s Houthis have claimed an attack on a merchant ship in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen. A Houthi spokesman said the group had targeted a Liberian-flagged vessel named Tutor using a sea drone. The Royal Navy’s UK’s Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) office said it received reports of a ship being struck on […]
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi militia on Friday claimed to have attacked a US aircraft carrier in the Red Sea in response to airstrikes in areas controlled by the group. The Houthi military spokesman Yehya Saree said the group had fired missiles at the carrier Eisenhower, and the hit was “precise and direct.” He added that the […]
(Bloomberg) — The Houthis said they attacked a US aircraft carrier in the Red Sea in response to deadly American and British airstrikes on their positions in Yemen on Thursday. Most Read from Bloomberg The Iran-backed militant organization targeted the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, a spokesman said in a televised speech on Friday. He gave […]
DUBAI (Reuters) – Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis said on Monday they launched attacks on three ships in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, and two U.S. destroyers in the Red Sea. The group, which describes its attacks as acts of solidarity with Palestinians in Israel’s war in Gaza, said the ships were the Larego Desert […]
By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) – Yemen’s Houthi group freed more than 100 detainees in Sanaa on Sunday, calling the move a “unilateral humanitarian initiative” to pardon prisoners and return them to their families. “Most of them are humanitarian cases, including the sick, the wounded, and the elderly,” said Abdul Qader Al-Murtada, head of the […]