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 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.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Last Call,” CNBC Contributor and Managing Director and Global Head of Commodity Strategy for RBC Capital Markets Helima Croft stated that statements from the Biden administration have made it clear that the war in Gaza has
Economist warns Western fight against inflation faces a serious knockback as Iran-backed attacks set to send the cost of imports spiraling.
India is deploying three guided missile destroyers to the Arabian Sea after a drone last week hit an “Israel-affiliated” merchant vessel off its western coast.
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 Pentagon said more than 20 countries have signed up to protect Red Sea shipping against the Iran-backed Houthis, but it only named 12.
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.
A vital U.S.-led mission to protect cargo shipping in the Red Sea has been met with offers of warships and aircraft from across the international community desperate to work together to keep the key trade artery free of terrorist interference.
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.
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 Chinese state-run propaganda outlet Global Times urged America to cede to the demands of Yemen’s Houthi terrorists.
The Chinese government was quick to cheer Australia’s rejection of a United States’ call to send a warship to help police vital Red Sea trade routes, gushing Wednesday that Canberra was finally stepping out of America’s “shadow.”
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen vowed to continue attacking Red Sea shipping despite a U.S.-led international security coalition.
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.
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 Maersk shipping company suspended shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait after Houthi terrorists launched a string of attacks.
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen launched missiles at a tanker full of jet fuel and threatened a U.S. Navy destroyer with a drone.
Australia is considering a U.S. request to send a warship to the Red Sea to help protect shipping from attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A missile suspected to have been fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels slammed into a Norwegian-flagged tanker in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen, a key maritime chokepoint, authorities said Tuesday.
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen forced a merchant ship to turn back from Israel and attacked other ships with missiles and drones.
A U.S. destroyer shot down multiple drones while responding to several Houthi ballistic missile attacks against an Israeli-owned and other ships in the southern Red Sea, deepening U.S. military involvement in the Middle East amid the Israel-Hamas war.
A U.S. Navy warship and multiple commercial vessels came under attack Sunday in the Red Sea, the Pentagon said, marking a potential escalation in a series of maritime attacks in the Mideast linked to the Israel-Hamas war.
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen released a video documenting their illegal seizure of a cargo ship in the Red Sea on Sunday.
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi insurgents seized a cargo ship called the Galaxy Leader in the Red Sea. The ship is owned by a British-based shipping company and operated by a Japanese firm, but the Houthis claimed it was an Israeli target.
Upwards of 3,000 U.S. sailors and Marines sailed into the Red Sea on Monday after transiting the Suez Canal in a pre-announced deployment, the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet said in a statement.
Voice of America News (VOA) reported on Tuesday that while the international community is nervously monitoring the brutal war between factions of the Sudanese junta and scrambling to deal with the ensuing humanitarian disaster, Communist China is moving full speed ahead with plans to “advance its own interests” in Sudan’s oil and mineral resources.
Sudan’s ruling military concluded a review of an agreement with Russia to build a navy base on the Red Sea in the African country, two Sudanese officials said Saturday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov continued his swing through Africa on Thursday by meeting with the ruling junta in Sudan immediately after pledging Russia’s support to the military coup that rules Mali.
The Biden administration is mediating talks aimed at normalizing ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel in exchange for the transfer of two Red Sea islands from Egypt to Gulf kingdom, a report by the Axios news site said.
Israel is using “killer dolphins” for espionage purposes, the Hamas terror group claimed on Monday, and went on to say that the aquatic attackers were also behind the death of a Hamas naval commando.
Bahraini leaders committed Thursday to partner with a new U.S. Navy task force to ramp up new unmanned systems for maritime operations, the Navy said on Wednesday.
U.S. and Israeli warships conducted a combined maritime security patrol in the Red Sea this week as a shift in responsibility for Israel from U.S. European Command to U.S. Central Command took effect Wednesday.
Tugboats and dredgers joined land-based heavy machinery Friday working to free a giant container ship blocking Egypt’s Suez Canal for a fourth day.
The MV Ever Given clogged one of the most vital shipping routes in the world, after its route traced a familiar shape in the Red Sea.
The closure of the Suez Canal, one of the world’s busiest maritime shipping lanes, continues into its second day after a cargo ship ran aground and completely blocked passage between the Red and Mediterranean Seas. The Suez Canal Authority announced Thursday it was “temporarily suspending navigation” through the canal as maritime traffic backed up on both ends, Agence France-Presse reported.
An Israeli submarine transited the Suez Canal and is in the Red Sea, poised for possible action against Iran, the Israeli television station KAN 11 reported.
