Yemen

United Nations experts warned the Security Council that the Shiite Houthi terrorists of Yemen have received “unprecedented” international support — much of it from Iran — since the war between Israel and its allies Hamas erupted, the Associated Press reported on Sunday.

The Iran-backed Houthi terrorist organization of Yemen claimed on Thursday that they had successfully conducted a drone attack on Tel Aviv, Israel, urging jihadists throughout the region to unite to destroy Israel.

Vice President Kamala Harris is the Iranian “Ayatollahs’ handpicked candidate,” according to Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton, who called for the elimination of “all of Hezbollah’s leadership” while insisting that the United States “should let Israel win” against Tehran’s key terrorist proxy in the region.

The Israel Defense Force (IDF) carried out airstrikes against the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen on Sunday, the second such attack since July, in response to several ballistic missiles fired by the rebels at Israel in recent days.

The de jure leader of Yemen, President Rashad Mohammed al-Alimi of the “Presidential Leadership Council,” reproached the United Nations and greater international community for abandoning his administration in its decade-old civil war against Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in his address to the General Assembly on Monday.

Saudi diplomat and former intelligence chief Turki al-Faisal recently lamented the weak response by the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden and the greater West to Yemen’s Houthi terrorists disrupting commercial shipping in the Red Sea, the Guardian reported on Sunday, dismissing “pinprick bombings” as insufficient.

Iran is bolstering its influence in Iraq by moving in leaders of its proxy terrorist organizations Hamas and the Yemeni Houthi movement, the left-wing New York Times reported on Sunday — days after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian concluded a visit to the neighboring country.

Maersk said that disruptions to global shipping that attacks from the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen have caused are worsening. 

The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen attacked three more commercial vessels in the Red Sea with drones and ballistic missiles.

The Houthis published a video they claimed showed their members boarding the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion and planting bombs.

The Pentagon said on Tuesday that the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion, abandoned in the Red Sea after a pirate attack by the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen last week, appears to be leaking oil — possibly the prelude to a much-feared environmental catastrophe.

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield condemned the Houthis for creating an ecological disaster by attacking an oil tanker.

The Greek-flagged oil tanker MV Sounion was left adrift and burning in the Red Sea after attacks from the Houthi terrorists of Yemen.

The State Department announced on Saturday that it would lift a three-year ban on selling certain weapons to Saudi Arabia.

The leader of the Ansarullah Yemeni terrorist organization, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, lamented the “big loss” of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh.

The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen claimed on Sunday to have shot down another expensive U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone.

An Israeli hacker group called “We Red Evils Original” took credit on Thursday for causing widespread wi-fi outages in Iran.

Leaders of the Iran-backed Yemeni terrorist group Ansarullah, commonly known as the Houthis, threatened unnamed Arab states on Tuesday with an “answer” to their alleged cooperation with neighboring Israel, part of a larger statement of belligerence promising “unprecedented” attacks on Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a warning to Iran on Saturday evening after the Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck the Al Hudaydah Port in Yemen in response to a Houthi drone attack Friday that reached Tel Aviv.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Saturday that it had struck the “Houthi terrorist regime” in Yemen for the first time, launching a long-distance airstrike on the Al Hudaydah Port, targeting the origin of a drone that hit Israel Friday.

Domestic support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing Likud Party is on the rise.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed Friday that the “aerial target” that hit Tel Aviv, evading air defenses, killing one civilian, and wounding eight others, was an upgraded Iranian drone fired by the Houthis in Yemen.

The chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) warned on Thursday that the pivotal shipping passage lost nearly 25 percent of its revenue in the 2023-2024 fiscal year, largely as a result of attacks on civilian commercial ships by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi terrorists.

The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen attacked two more ships with drones, missiles, and even crewed vessels on Monday.

The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen took responsibility on Tuesday for attacking the container ship Maersk Sentosa in the Arabian Sea.

The Iranian Navy frigate Sahand sank at the port of Bandar Abbas on Tuesday, two days after it capsized during repairs and was rebalanced.

President Joe Biden’s DHS has extended and redesignated a so-called “temporary” amnesty to 4,000 Yemeni nationals.

The head of the Yemeni Ansarallah terrorist organization, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, boasted in a national address on Thursday that his jihadists had turned American aircraft carriers into “obsolete weapons.”

Vincent Clerc, CEO of Danish shipping giant Maersk, informed his customers that he expects Iran-backed Houthi terrorism to continue disrupting Red Sea shipping into the third quarter of 2024, and perhaps beyond.

The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen have apparently decided music and singing will no longer be tolerated in areas under their control.

Over a dozen international shipping organizations published a statement on Wednesday demanding that “states with influence” do more to protect civilian ships from Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, responding to the Iran-backed jihadists sinking their second ship this week.

United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Tuesday that the Greek-owned coal carrier MV Tutor, struck by Houthi missiles and an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) on July 12, has sunk in the Red Sea. 

A team from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier strike group rescued the crew of a Greek-owned ship that Houthis attacked.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Thursday that a Palau-flagged, Ukrainian-owned, Polish-operated bulk carrier called MV Verbena was sailing through the Gulf of Aden when it was hit by two anti-ship missiles launched by the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen.

The Iran-backed Houthi insurgency detained at least 15 Yemeni employees of international organizations, including the United Nations.

The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen claimed they attacked the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.