US Navy The undeclared missile war between Yemen’s Houthi rebels and the United States Navy has made one thing irrefutably clear: the tens of billions of dollars the service has poured into protecting its warships has paid off. The U.S. is allied with most countries in the...
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...
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 ...
The attacks come as theU.S. Navy faces the most intense combat it has seen since World War IIin trying to counter the Houthi campaign — attacks the rebels say are meant to halt theIsrael-Hamas warin the Gaza Strip. However, the Iranian-backed rebel assaults often see the Houthis targe...
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...
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...
A Liberian-flagged oil tanker, the Chios Lion, is analyzing potential damage and examining a suspected oil spill following an attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the Red Sea, according to the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Joint Maritime Information Center (JMIC) on July 16, 2024. During a ser...
The assault apparently targeted the USS Carney, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer that has been involved in the American campaign against the rebels.
The U.S.-led campaign against Iran-backed Houthi rebels has turned into the most intense running sea battle the Navy has faced since World War II. That’s what its leaders and experts tell The Associated Press,