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 ...
Attacks on ships in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have unraveled a key global trade route, forcing vessels into longer and more costly journeys around Africa.
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...
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."...
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. ...
Chevron CEO Michael Wirthsaid Tuesday the ongoing attacks by Houthi rebels on shipping vessels in the Red Sea poses "very real" risks to oil flows and prices. "It's a very serious situation and seems to be getting worse," Wirth told CNBC in an interview at theWorld Economic ...
Around 5 ships crossing the Red Sea are using their signals to show their links with China, a step taken to avoid attacks by the Houthis in the Red Sea.
China is warning Iran to get attacks by the Iranian-back Houthis on ships in the Red Sea under control or else it could harm their trade partnership.
Disruption in global shipping from Houthi attacksCommercial ships avoiding Houthi attacks on the Red Sea require nine additional days and thousands of additional miles to their route.(more) Progress was disrupted on October 7, 2023, after an event that shocked the broaderMiddle Eastregion:Hamas, a...
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...