LONDON (AA) – The container and dry cargo ship traffic through the Red Sea has shown a significant decline as shipping companies are forced to suspend their voyages through this route or divert it to the Cape of Good Hope. While daily container vessel traffic through the Red Sea halved in January 1-10 compared to […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre has accused Ethiopia’s government of planning an attack on Somali waters and targeting Arab countries bordering the Red Sea. Addressing the Arab League emergency meeting virtually from the capital Mogadishu, Barre said Addis Ababa intends to create a new demographic reality...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Gaza media office said Tuesday morning that Israeli strikes had killed another 78 people overnight. Meanwhile, Israel has said its war in southern Gaza will soon enter a less intensive phase. More than 100 days into the war, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come under intense internati...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanon has expressed deep concern about military strikes by US-led allied forces in the Red Sea and Yemen, warning that if the international community fails to act immediately to halt armed actions in the region, Israel’s war on Gaza could spread throughout the Middle East. The country’s Foreign Ministry in a statement [&h...
The US and UK’s strikes on Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis rebels, aimed at stopping their attacks on Red Sea shipping, were designed to send a “very strong message” to Tehran, says Melanie Garson, Associate Professor in International Conflict Resolution at University College London. “In the absence of having been det...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Voicing concern over rising tensions in the Red Sea, China has called on “all relevant parties” to avoid a further escalation of conflicts in the region. Beijing said the parties should “remain calm and exercise restraint,” daily Global Times reported. The US and UK carried out airstrikes on multiple targets inside Yemen ...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – Spain will not participate in international missions to protect Red Sea shipping vessels from Houthi attacks, Defense Minister Margarita Robles has said. “Spain’s position, out of a sense of responsibility and commitment to peace, is not to intervene in the Red Sea,” she told the media. Robles added that Spain’s naval [&he...
LONDON- (AA) Amid criticism from members of parliament, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak defended the country’s recent military strikes on targets associated with the Yemeni Houthi group, labeling them as an act of “self-defense” to protect crucial shipping lanes. “The United Kingdom will always stand up for freedom o...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – Algeria described the US-British airstrikes in Yemen on Friday as a “dangerous escalation” that will undermine UN “efforts to find a solution to the conflict” in the country. The Foreign Ministry expressed in a statement the “deep concern and regret” about the airstrikes “that targete...
LONDON (AA) – The US and British navies shot down drones and missiles fired to repel the “largest attack” from Yemen’s Houthis in the Red Sea, the British Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. “Overnight, HMS DIAMOND, along with US warships, successfully repelled the largest attack from the Iranian-backed Houthis in the Red Sea to da...