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US Strikes Houthi Arms Sites Amid Red Sea Tensions

US warplanes staged multiple strikes Saturday night on Iran-backed Houthi advanced weapons storage facilities in Yemen, the Pentagon said. The facilities contained various weapons used to target military and civilian vessels navigating international waters throughout the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, according to information provided to AFP by the ...

Shipping Giant Maersk Records Sixfold Profit Rise

Danish shipping giant Maersk said Thursday that profits in the third quarter were six times higher than the same period last year as it maintains high prices to get trade through conflict zones. Net profits from trading from July to September rose to $3.049 billion, while turnover rose 30% to $15.76 billion. The world's number two shipping ...

Russia Helped Houthis Attack Boats in Red Sea

Russia earlier this year provided satellite data to help Yemen's Huthi rebels strike ships in the Red Sea, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The US daily -- citing "a person familiar with the matter" and two anonymous European defense officials -- reported that the data was transmitted by Iranian intermediaries and used to ...

US Strikes Target Houthis, Destroy Underwater Drone and Missiles

US forces said that they destroyed an underwater drone and nearly 20 ballistic missiles in a series of strikes against Yemen's Houthis, who threatened on Tuesday to step up their attacks in the Red Sea during Ramadan. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement on Monday night that the strikes were carried out after the Houthis fired two ...

US and UK Strikes Kill First Civilian in Yemen

The Houthis reported the first civilian death in US and British airstrikes after the latest round of joint raids over the weekend. "The American-British aggression on the district of Maqbana in the governorate of Taiz has left one civilian dead and eight wounded," the Houthis' official news agency Saba said. The Houthis made the statement a day ...

Houthis Cause Oil Spill in the Red Sea

According to the US Central Command (CENTCOM), a Houthi attack targeting a ship in the Red Sea on February 18 has caused an oil slick. CENTCOM said in a post published Saturday on X that the ship in question, a Belize-flagged British bulk carrier named the Rubymar, is currently "anchored but slowly taking on water." On Feb. 18 between 9:30 p.m. ...

French Navy Down Two Drones Off Yemen's Coast

The French Navy announced on Thursday, February 22, that it had downed two drones in the Red Sea. This comes shortly after a missile hit a merchant ship off the coast of Yemen. The French Navy destroyed two new drones originating from Yemen in Red Sea waters on Wednesday night, the Armed Forces General Staff announced at a press briefing on ...

US Navy Sinks Three Houthi-Operated Vessels in Red Sea

The US Navy sank three Houthi rebel vessels in the Red Sea after they attacked a container ship, amid rising tensions from multiple Houthi assaults on commercial and merchant vessels in the region. The US military said Sunday its Navy helicopters fired at Iran-backed Houthi rebel boats off Yemen that were attacking a cargo ship, with Yemeni ...

Insight into "Prosperity Guardian" Operation in Six Key Points

Led by the United States, the "Prosperity Guardian" operation, which involves approximately a dozen countries, aims to protect the Red Sea from attacks launched by the Houthis based in Yemen. Here are six key points outlining the primary features of this deployment. On Wednesday, December 27, two of the world's major shipping companies, the ...

US Sanctions Against Iranian Entities Financing the Houthis

The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated one individual and three entities responsible for facilitating the flow of Iranian financial assistance to Houthi forces and their destabilizing activities, mainly in the Red Sea. Among those designated on Thursday is the head of the Currency Exchangers Association in Sana’a ...

Gaza in the Grip of Increasingly Intense Fighting

Fighting between Israel and Hamas raged on Saturday, with Gaza's health ministry reporting more than 200 deaths in 24 hours and the Israeli Army saying five of its troops had died. Hamas launched an unprecedented attack against Israel from Gaza on October 7, killing about 1,140 people in Israel, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on ...