HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – Canada on Monday officially designated Yemen’s Ansarallah movement, commonly known as the Houthis, as a “terrorist entity” under the criminal code. “Today’s addition of Ansarallah as a listed terrorist entity contributes to our efforts in fighting terrorism globally and aligning Canada with...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Yemeni Houthi group has claimed to have attacked three US warships in the Red Sea as they were reportedly sailing to support Israel. In a statement, the Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the group had fired “23 ballistic and winged missiles and a drone” at “three US destroyers” in the ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia has accused Ethiopia of providing unauthorized arms shipments to the semiautonomous state of Puntland. The Foreign Ministry said the arms shipments violated Somalia’s sovereignty and it is “threatening regional security.” “This action constitutes a grave infringement on Somalia’s sovereignty and po...
LONDON (AA) — Britain’s maritime agency has reported an incident off the coast of Al Hudaydah in western Yemen. In a statement, the UK Maritime Trade Operations agency said it received a report of an incident 58 nautical miles (about 66.7 miles) southwest of Al Hudaydah. “The Master of a merchant vessel reports that the […]...
ANKARA (AA) – Britain’s maritime agency has reported an incident that occurred off the Al-Hudaydah coast, western Yemen. In a statement, the UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said the incident took place 63 nautical miles southwest of Al-Hudaydah port city on the Red Sea coast of Yemen. It reported two explosions “in close...
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – AFP A merchant ship is thought to have sunk in the Red Sea after an attack by Yemeni Houthis that forced it to be abandoned last week, a security agency said. The MV Tutor, which was holed during an attack that left one Filipino sailor dead, is “believed to have […]
US Central Command (CENTCOM) says it destroyed a drone operated by the Yemeni Houthi group over the southern Red Sea. The Houthis have been targeting Israeli-linked cargo ships in the Red Sea in solidarity with Gaza, in which Israel has killed over 36,000 Palestinians since October, most of them children and women. The Red Sea […]
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – AFP Yemen’s Huthis on Friday threatened to extend their attacks on Israel-bound shipping to the Mediterranean after months of strikes on vessels in the Red Sea. The Iran-backed Huthis, who say they are acting in support of Palestinians of Gaza which has been ravaged by Israel, said the escalation would...
The US Navy spent nearly $1 billion in munitions in responding to attacks on Navy ships and commercial vessels in the past six months in the Middle East. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro told a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing that the munitions are “extremely important”. He said they have countered more than 130 direct attac...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Yemen’s Houthis said Tuesday they attacked with missiles a US ship in the Red Sea and Israel’s port city of Eilat. Houthi forces struck the MADO oil tanker with naval missiles, their spokesman Yahya Saree said in statements carried by the Houthi-run Al-Masirah television. The Yemeni group said it also fired […]
