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 […]
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The US and the UK conducted four airstrikes against the Al Hudaydah International Airport in western Yemen, the Houthi group said on Wednesday. “The US-UK aggression resumes targeting Al Hudaydah International Airport with a fourth airstrike,” the Al-Masirah channel, affiliated with the Houthis, said on Telegram. It d...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Yemen’s Houthi group is insisting on bringing relief aid into the Gaza Strip in exchange for allowing the sunken British ship Rubymar in the Gulf of Aden to be salvaged. “We confirm again that the offer is valid to tow the ship (Rubymar) in exchange for bringing relief trucks into Gaza,” […]
GENEVA (AA) – A new report by the UN development agency (UNCTAD) signals how attacks on Red Sea shipping are a factor reshaping the world’s trade routes and pushing up costs globally. The report — titled The Impact of Global Trade of Disruption of Shipping Routes in the Red Sea, Black Sea, and the Panama […]