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...
The tanker was targeted in a strategic Red Sea waterway near Yemen through which transfers much of the world's oil. Vessels near Yemen's southern coast have been attacked in recent months by Houthi militants. Nearly four million barrels of oil are shipped daily to Europe, the United States a...
helicopters stopped an attack on a container vessel of Maersk by Houthi militants in the Red Sea backed by Iran, sinking three ships and killing ten militants. Around 3:30 PM GMT on Sunday, the attackers tried to board Maersk Hangzhou, which was flying the flag of Singapore, according to ...
What to know about the Houthi rebel movement, an Iran-backed group that controls much of Yemen, as the U.S. and allies retaliate for its attacks on Red Sea shipping.
The Houthi militants fired "small arms weapons at the MAERSK HANGZHOU, getting to within 20 meters of the vessel, and attempted to board the vessel," it said. "U.S. helicopters from the USS EISENHOWER (CVN 69) and GRAVELY (DDG 107) responded to the distress call and in the process of...
Yemen’s Houthi militants have increased drone and missile strikes in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden shipping routes since November, claiming solidarity with Palestinians affected by Israel’s war in Gaza. U.S. and British forces have carried out retaliatory strikes in Yemen. ...
India’s navy evacuated all 20 crew from a stricken vessel in the Red Sea on Thursday, after a Houthi attack killed three seafarers in the first civilian fatalities from the Yemeni group’s campaign against the key shipping route. The Iran-aligned militants fired a missile at the Barbados-fla...
The U.S. military and its allies shot down a flurry of at least 28 drones in the Red Sea fired by Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen early Saturday, the Pentagon said. The drones were fired over an approximately four-hour period from about 4 a.m. to 8:20 a.m. local time,...
Russian Pacific Fleet warships have entered the Red Sea, passing via the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, as Yemen’s Houthi militants continue to attack commercial vessels. This action complicates an already tense maritime region overcrowded with naval warships. According to the state-run Tass news agency,...