SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The US and the UK have carried out 300 airstrikes in Yemen since last month, according to the Houthi group. “The US is attacking Yemen and it will not escape punishment,” Hussein al-Ezzi, a Houthi official in their Foreign Ministry, told a press conference cited by the Houthi-run Al-Masirah Television. “We […]...
ROME (AA) – Italy would not be intimidated by threats from Yemen’s Houthis and will respond to their attacks, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has said. “We defend mercantile ships’ traffic. We don’t attack anybody, but we don’t want anybody to attack us,” he told reporters at the sidelines of an event in Rome. “There is […]...
Paris, France – AFP French maritime transporter CMA CGM has again suspended the transit by its vessels of the Red Sea, where Houthis have targeted numerous ships, a source told AFP on Friday. The decision, taken on Friday, halts the use of the key transit route until further notice in order to “not take any […]
Sanaa, Yemen – AFP Yemen’s Houthis fired “several” missiles at a US warship in the Red Sea, they said on Wednesday, hours after the US military reported shooting down a missile. “The naval forces of the Yemeni Armed Forces, with the help of God Almighty, fired several… naval missiles at the American destroye...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Yemen’s Houthis reported fresh airstrikes by the US and its allied British forces on the western province of Hodeidah on Saturday. The Houthi-run satellite channel Al-Masirah reported that “the American-British aggression targeted the Ras Issa area in Hodeidah Governorate with two raids.” The channel did not provide a...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US and the UK have imposed sanctions on four military officials from Yemen’s Houthi group for attacks on Israel-bound vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in retaliation to the ongoing Israeli onslaught on Gaza. “The Houthis’ ‘terrorist’ attacks on merchant vessels and their civilian c...
LONDON (AA) – In a joint statement, 24 countries have condemned the targeting of ships in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthis. “In response to continued illegal and reckless Houthi attacks against vessels transiting the Red Sea and surrounding waterways, the armed forces of the United States and the United Kingdom, with support from Aus...
MOSCOW (AA) – A Russian diplomat has said that strikes by the US and the UK on Yemen, launched in response to Houthi attacks on Israel-bound vessels in the Red Sea, may cross out two years of settlement efforts in the war-torn Arab country. Speaking in an interview with Russian state news agency TASS, Russian […]
ANKARA (AA) — Yemen’s Houthis vowed on Tuesday to retaliate against several overnight strikes conducted by the US and UK against the group. In a statement, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said US and UK warplanes carried out 18 strikes late on Monday, 12 in the capital Sanaa, three in the western province of Hodeidah, […]
LONDON / ANKARA (AA) – Houthi attacks on Israel-linked ships in the Red Sea have caused a significant decline in vessel tonnages and grain flows. Wheat flow through the Red Sea has especially been affected as shipping companies are forced to avoid the Suez Canal and reroute around the Cape of Good Hope, at the […]
