The Red Sea littoral, which has been experiencing competitions involving regional and extra-regional powers for at least two decades, has recently witnessed a heightened threat to the fragile regional security scenario in the shape of sustained attacks on Red Sea shipping b...
Even with an international naval force in place, Houthi attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea continue. As a result, widespread reroutings of ocean container traffic away from the Suez Canal continue, and ocean freight rates have begun to spike. This dispatch includes an update on the ...
ADEN, Yemen, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the leader of Yemen's Houthi group, vowed on Friday to continue its naval operations in the Red Sea, rejecting media reports suggesting a decrease in Houthi maritime attacks, the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported. In a televised ...
The group also announced joint operations with Iraqi armed factions, allegedly targeting five ships in the Israeli port of Haifa and the Mediterranean Sea. These attacks are part of a broader campaign by the Houthis, which began in November 2023, targeting ships in the Red Sea and the Bab al...
Four months after our report first aired, the Houthis are still on the attack in the Red Sea. So far, they have sunk two cargo ships, the second, just this past week. Overall, shipping traffic remains about half of what it was before the attacks began. ...
A series of attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have targeted a Liberian-flagged chemical tanker in the Red Sea.
“The frequency of attacks on merchant shipping highlights the urgent need for all stakeholders to take decisive action to safeguard the lives of innocent civilian seafarers and put an end to such threats.” Thecost of insuringa seven-day voyage through the Red Sea has risen by hundreds of tho...
He said the rebels’ attacks would only stop when the “siege on the Palestinian people in the Gaza is lifted.” The United Nations called on the Houthis “to cease all attacks against international shipping in the Red Sea,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said, expressing serious...
"So far, it almost seems the Houthi attacks are just increasing," said Bendik Folden Nyttingnes, a shipping analyst at Clarksons Securities. In an email to clients, Honour Lane Shipping (HLS) said its carrier contacts are "informally" predicting the Red Sea situation will not be solved...
He added Italy was not a direct target of the movement at the moment, and Houthi's attacks in the Red Sea would stay focused on "preventing Israeli ships from heading to occupied Palestine and targeting U.S. and British ships for American and British support to Israel in attacking Gaza."...