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 (AA) – Thousands of Yemenis held mass rallies across the Houthi-controlled region on Friday in support of the Palestinian people in Gaza, which has been subjected to Israeli military attacks since Oct. 7. People took to the streets of various cities and towns controlled by the Houthi group, with the main protest taking […]...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US forces on Thursday destroyed an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) ground control station and 10 one-way attack UAVs in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen. “On Feb. 1 at approximately 1.30 a.m. (Sanaa time), U.S. Central Command forces conducted strikes against an Iranian-backed Houthi UAV ground control station a...
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...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The US military said on Friday it shot down a Houthi anti-ship ballistic missile in the Gulf of Aden. “On Jan. 26, at approximately 1:30 p.m. (Sanaa time), Iranian-backed Houthi militants fired one anti-ship ballistic missile from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen toward Arleigh-Burke class destroyer USS Carney (DDG ...
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 […]
