Threats to shipping continued to escalate on Thursday, as an explosive-packed drone boat launched by the Houthi terrorists of Yemen exploded in the Red Sea, while a group of as-yet unidentified but possibly Somali pirates stormed a Liberian-flagged merchant ship near the coast of Somalia.
Maersk said it would divert all vessels around Africa instead of using the Red Sea and Suez Canal for the “foreseeable future”.
The U.N. Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday held an emergency meeting to discuss missile, drone, and boarding attacks on Red Sea shipping by the Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen.
One of the UK’s largest retailers warns of stock shortages this year as strikes in Red Sea delay arrivals and send shipping prices spiralling.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) stated that he “probably would have taken more aggressive action against the Houthis” and his “hope is” the administration “sends a very clear message
Danish shipping giant Maersk suspended Red Sea shipping again on Sunday, calling a 48-hour pause to reconsider its plans for resuming Suez Canal routes after the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen attacked one of its container ships.
Britain “won’t hesitate” to join the U.S. and take “direct action” against Houthis in Yemen its Defence Secretary has said.
On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” CNN Military Analyst and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Wesley Clark (Ret.) stated that the Houthis and Iran react to rhetoric from the Biden administration by saying, “they don’t want it to escalate,
On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” CNN Pentagon Correspondent Oren Liebermann stated that the deterrence message to Iran that the Biden administration has attempted to send “has not gotten through,” and we ended up with the conflict with Iranian proxies that
U.S. Navy helicopters on Sunday sunk three Houthi boats, killing their crews, after the terrorists attempted to hijack a commercial vessel and were fired on in response to the besieged container ship’s distress call.
The Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen fired a missile that struck the Maersk Hangzhou in the Red Sea on Saturday, according to U.S. Central Command — the first successful strike against a commercial ship since the U.S. formed a coalition to deter attacks.
The Biden administration’s ballyhooed naval coalition scrapped together for the purpose of deterring missile and drone attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea by the Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen is failing.
The Treasury Department announced a series of new sanctions on Thursday against companies accused of helping finance Yemen’s Houthi terrorist group, an attempt to limit the windfall of funding made available to the Houthis after President Joe Biden chose to delist them as a terror organization in 2021.
On Wednesday’s “CNN News Central,” CNN Military Analyst and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Wesley Clark (Ret.) stated that the Biden administration’s public policy towards attacks by Iranian proxies is “inviting the enemy to attack you and dare you to
The effort by shipping companies to reroute traffic from the Red Sea around the Cape of Good Hope, thus avoiding drone and missile attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen, is running into major logistical hurdles because African ports are not ready to accommodate the surge of massive container ships and tankers.
The industry publication Energy Intelligence reported that South Korea increased the amount of crude oil it imported from Saudi Arabia.
The Houthis are members of a jihadi movement that calls itself “Ansar Allah,” the Army of Allah. Its slogan is “Allahu Akbar, Death to the United States, Death to Israel, Curse the Jews, Victory for Islam.” President Joe Biden lifted Ansar Allah’s classification as a terrorist organization in February 2021.
Economist warns Western fight against inflation faces a serious knockback as Iran-backed attacks set to send the cost of imports spiraling.
Biden promised to return “normalcy” to the world, but there have been no shortages of foreign policy crises under his watch.
2023 was a landmark year for drone warfare as the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) became increasingly widespread among combatants of every size and ideology.
The Mediterranean Sea could be “closed” indefinitely by Iran if the U.S. and Israel continued “crimes” in Gaza, an Iranian state report Saturday warned.
The Biden administration has failed to react thus far to a direct attack by Iran-backed Houthi rebels from Yemen this weekend on a U.S. destroyer and two commercial ships in the Red Sea.
Spain has backed away from a U.S.-led coalition meant to deter the Iranian-backed Houthis from attacks on global shipping near the Bab-el-Mandeb strait at the southern end of the Red Sea.
The Pentagon said more than 20 countries have signed up to protect Red Sea shipping against the Iran-backed Houthis, but it only named 12.
Trump stood up to the Houthis, and to Iran. Biden reversed that policy within days of taking office. We see the result: a failure, like the rest of his foreign policy.
Sources in the shipping industry told Reuters on Thursday they are “in the dark” about the Biden administration’s new Operation Prosperity Garden, a multinational effort to protect Red Sea shipping from terrorist attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen.
The leader of the Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen said his forces would attack U.S. warships in the Red Sea.
Until the waterway is proven safe trade will avoid the area or risk it at a premium, forcing up the cost of imports on which the West relies.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh left his luxury accommodations in Qatar on Wednesday to visit Egypt, ostensibly to bring his personal authority to negotiations with Israel.
Shipping rates from China to Europe are soaring as a growing number of companies suspend and restrict transit through the Red Sea.
The Malaysian government has banned all Israeli-owned and -flagged ships from docking to show support for Hamas in the Gaza war.
The “coalition” of countries formed by the U.S. to deter Houthi attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea and the Bab-el-Mandeb strait excludes Israel. It also omits Saudi Arabia and Egypt, two of the other countries directly affected by the threat.
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen vowed to continue attacking Red Sea shipping despite a U.S.-led international security coalition.
The Iran-backed Houthi terrorist organization controlling Yemen threatened to turn the Red Sea into a “graveyard” on Monday in response to U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announcing a coalition to stop Houthi pirate attacks on shipping vessels in the region.
BP on Monday joined the growing list of companies that have halted or restricted shipping through the Red Sea due to terrorist attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen.
President Trump’s successful policies in containing the Houthis were reversed by President Biden within days of taking office in 2021.
A “possible explosion” struck a key shipping lane off Yemen Monday, the latest incident in the vital waterway threatened by Huthi rebels.
Australia’s left-wing Labor government continues to dither over a direct U.S. request to join the expanding multi-national naval force patrolling the Red Sea to keep one of the world’s major trade arteries open.
The Israeli logistics company Trucknet has successfully brought ten trucks across a new 2,550-kilometer overland route between the port of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, across Saudi Arabia and Jordan, and into Israel, it was revealed on Saturday.
The Maersk shipping company suspended shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait after Houthi terrorists launched a string of attacks.
