In this photo provided by the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, taken from the bridge of HMS Diamond, Sea Viper missiles are fired in the Red Sea. U.S. and British militaries are bombing more than a dozen sites used by the Iranian-backed Hou...
The Iranian-backed group had defied a warning to stop targeting ships in the Red Sea - and tensions escalated earlier this month after a British warship, in an operation with US forces, shot down seven drones launched by Houthis torepel the largest drone and missile attack to ...
Some of these - likeHamas,Hezbollahand theHouthis- have been discussed in detail in other Sky News stories, but others are less well known. Islamic Resistance in Iraq Responsibility for the deadly attack on US forces over the weekend was claimed by Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella term...
— powerful Hezbollah, the dominant force in Lebanon; — smaller militias in Iraq and Syria; — Houthis in the poor Arabian peninsula country of Yemen, who are sometimes seen as the loose cannons of the alliance. FILE - A Hezbollah fighter carries the coffin of his comrade who was ki...
The war has pit the Iranian-allied Shiite Houthi rebel movement against a Sunni Saudi-led military coalition, after Houthis toppled Saudi-backed President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and his government in late 2014.
“This will shake the confidence of Hezbollah’s Iran-backed allies across the Arab world, from the Houthis in Yemen to the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq, as well as Iran itself, sparking a tectonic shift in Iran’s network of influence in the Middle East,” she a...
the team” fighting Iran in Yemen, a former senior official in the U.S. intelligence community told The Daily Beast. “We should have helped Hadi long ago against his most significant threat [the Houthis], and not just against AQAP. Had we done so, we would not be where we are now....
Liam Payne had the X Factor but less support Great white shark washes up on beach US launches airstrikes against Houthis in Yemen The families of those involved are being supported by specially trained officers, a Cumbria Constabulary spokesperson said. ...
Liam Payne had the X Factor but less support Great white shark washes up on beach US launches airstrikes against Houthis in Yemen The families of those involved are being supported by specially trained officers, a Cumbria Constabulary spokesperson said. ...
Trumpwrote on social mediaat the time: “Thank you to Iran, it shows a deal is possible!” A 2020 exchange with the Iran-backed Houthis In 2020, the Trump administrationsecured the releaseof two Americans who were imprisoned by Iran-b...