In a series of recent incidents, the United States Central Command has thwarted repeated attacks launched by the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. The most recent incident took place on May 12, 2024, at 3:30 a.m. local time when US Centcom forces successfully intercepted and destroyed ...
Iran is "very directly involved" in ship attacks that Yemen's Houthi rebels have carried out during Israel's war against Hamas, the U.S. Navy's top Mideast commander told The Associated Press on Monday. Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of the Navy's 5th Fleet, stopped...
The Houthi-run Health Ministry said the weekend strikes killed at least 31 people, including women and children, and wounded more than 100. The rebels said one strike hit two homes in northern Saada province, killing four children and a woman. The rebel-run Al-Ma...
Houthi spokesperson Mohammed Abdulsalam called the strikes "an American aggression" and "a blatant violation of the sovereignty of an independent state and a blatant support for Israel." The rebels said earlier Tuesday that they had fired two missiles at Israel, hours after the Israeli military sa...
Houthi rebels Israel-Hamas war Yemen No weapons were seen, but the "suspicious approach" happened in an area 80 nautical miles southeast of Aden in Yemen, according to the agency. A statement from US Central Command said: "Since 19 November 2023, Iranian-backed Houthi militants have attemp...
Asia, responsible for a trillion dollars a year in global trade. As we first reported in February, when theHouthisbegan to attack commercial ships, in solidarity with Hamas, President Biden faced a crisis in the Red Sea and sent the U.S. Navy into ...
The rebels fired more than a half dozen ballistic missiles and anti-ship cruise missiles and two drones at three U.S. ships that were traveling through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, but all were intercepted by the Navy destroyers, according to several U.S. officials. ...
The Houthis have been a key component of Iran's self-described “Axis of Resistance" during the Mideast wars that includes Lebanon's Hezbollah, Hamas and other militant groups. Since Houthis seized the country’s north and its capital of Sanaa in 2014, the rebels have shot down MQ-9 ...
The assault apparently targeted the USS Carney, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer that has been involved in the American campaign against the rebels.
A bulk carrier has sunk in the Red Sea, days after an attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels who are believed to have killed one mariner on board.