Iran-Backed Houthis Attack Three Ships in Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean
The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen announced on Thursday they had targeted three more commercial vessels with missiles and drones.
The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen announced on Thursday they had targeted three more commercial vessels with missiles and drones.
Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk announced on Tuesday that it will continue to avoid Red Sea shipping lanes for the “foreseeable future” due to terrorist attacks by the Iran-sponsored Houthi insurgents of Yemen.
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar says India has 21 ships deployed to protect commecial shipping from terrorism and piracy.
The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen claimed this weekend to have brought down a $30 million U.S. Reaper drone, the third one in six months if confirmed.
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents resume terrorist attacks against Red Sea shipping after a two-week pause.
A spokesman for the Yemeni Houthi terrorist organization identified the Panamanian-flagged, Chinese-owned-and-operated Huang Pu as one of several ships it attempted to bomb in the past 24 hours, incorrectly identifying it as “British.”
A senior member of the Yemeni terrorist Houthi organization claimed that the jihadists have weapons “capable of reaching the US” and threatened to bomb Saudi Arabia if it aided American airstrikes on his group, the Iranian state media outlet PressTV reported on Monday.
The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen launched missiles at a Chinese-owned oil tanker, seemingly violating a promise of safe passage.
Representatives from China and Russia worked out a deal for safe passage with the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen.
A senior leader within the Yemeni Houthi terrorist organization claimed in remarks on Sunday that Russia, China, and other members of the BRICS geopolitical coalition are cooperating with the Houthis to achieve “the historic defeat of the US, the UK and the West.”
The leader of Yemen’s Ansar Allah terrorist organization, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, announced on Thursday that his jihadists would expand their attacks on random commercial ships beyond the greater Red Sea region in an attempt to disrupt shipping routes around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa.
Egypt is selling real estate to the United Arab Emirates for $24 billion to make up for the Suez Canal shortfall from Houthi terrorism.
Civilian mariners killed in a Houthi missile strike for the first time, a bulk carrier abandoned and burning in the critical waterway.
The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen announced on Monday they had bombed another commercial ship – the Liberian-flagged, Swiss-owned MSC Sky – in an alleged attempt to hurt the Israeli economy.
A senior leader within the Yemeni Houthi terrorist organization promised on Sunday to sink more British ships after U.K. and coalition forces confirmed the sinking of the British-owned MV Rubymar, a commercial ship with no known ties to Israel, which the Houthis struck with a ballistic missile in mid-February.
A ship attacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has sunk in the Red Sea after days of taking on water, officials said Saturday.
Germany inadvertently attempted to shoot down a U.S. Reaper drone on Tuesday night, but the missiles malfunctioned and fell into the sea.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism, held a hearing on Tuesday to discuss the Houthi terror attacks on Red Sea shipping.
The Houthis celebrated that civilized nations such as America, Israel, and Britain have lost their “influence on international waters.”
The U.S. and UK on Saturday launched a fourth round of “self-defense” airstrikes against 18 targets in Yemen controlled by the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists, destroying missile storage facilities, drones, radars, and one helicopter.
The Iran-backed Houthi terrorist group knocked out four undersea communications cables linking Saudi Arabia and Djibouti, a report by an Israeli news outlet claimed Monday.
Combined U.S. and British forces carried out a fresh wave of strikes Saturday against 18 Huthi targets in Yemen, hitting back after weeks of attacks on Red Sea shipping by the Iran-backed rebels.
The leader of the Iran-backed Houthis of Yemen says the terror campaign against Red Sea shipping is “continuing, escalating, and effective.”
Attacks by Huthi rebels have sent insurance premiums surging, exacerbating costs already stretched by soaring freight rates.
A string of Houthi missile and drone attacks demonstrates the ineffectiveness of President Biden’s “Operation Prosperity Guardian.”
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has “taken delivery of sophisticated homegrown kamikaze and combat unmanned aerial vehicles,” Iran state media said.
The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen damaged a British-registered cargo vessel badly enough to make the crew abandon the ship.
Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly asked her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi to “help influence the Houthis to keep the Red Sea open.”
Attack may be the first serious missile damage inflicted on a merchant ship by the Iran-backed, Shiite Muslim Houthi Rebels.
Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels on Saturday claimed an attack a day earlier on an oil tanker in the Red Sea.
The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen claimed on Monday to have targeted and damaged an “American ship” in the Red Sea with an “accurate and direct” missile strike.
Insurance costs for Red Sea transit have risen by up to 50 percent since the Houthi terrorists began attacking commercial vessels.
Deployment marked “most serious engagement of a unit of the German navy in many decades,” Admiral Kaack told reporters in Berlin.
The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen launched six more anti-ship missiles into the Red Sea, defying U.S. warnings to halt their attacks.
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen may be considering an attack on undersea Internet cables in the Red Sea.
A senior member of the Yemeni Houthi terrorist organization declared that the group’s ongoing jihad in the Red Sea, which he described as “spillover” in the conflict between Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas, would “inevitably result in an end to US hegemony.”
A group of Dutch shipowners have approached the Ministry of Defence in Amsterdam to get permission to embark armed teams onboard cargo ships.
The Indian Navy on Friday foiled a pirate attack on an Iranian-flagged fishing ship off the coast of Somalia, rescuing the crew of 11 Iranians and 8 Pakistanis.
Houthi terrorist attacks are currently blocking a ship bound for Israel carrying 14,000 sheep and 2,000 cattle from completing its voyage, leaving the crew uncertain where its live cargo sourced from Australia will be taken.
The government of Yemen told the Chinese Foreign Ministry it “expects China to play a greater role … in the Middle East.”