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A “possible explosion” struck a key shipping lane off Yemen Monday, the latest incident in the vital waterway threatened by Huthi rebels.

A large container ship was struck by a projectile fired from Yemen, causing some cargo to fall overboard and setting a fire on the ship.

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.

Israel mocked the Houthi rebels of Yemen on Tuesday, with Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy saying that the Iranian-backed terror group has the “self-awareness of cartoon villains.”

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.

Israel shot down a ballistic missile in outer space with its Arrow defence system, which is being called the first space battle.

Hamadeh, who served as an intelligence officer in Saudi Arabia during Houthi attacks, said in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News Monday that the United States is being tested in the Middle East and the Biden administration is “continuing to fail.”

A United States Navy destroyer, along with ships from allied nations, rescued an Israeli-owned ship from armed attackers on a small boat Sunday, according to U.S. Central Command.

The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen released a video documenting their illegal seizure of a cargo ship in the Red Sea on Sunday.

One of the strangest aspects of the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian terror group Hamas is the involvement of the Houthi rebels of distant Yemen

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.

Israel successfully used its “Arrow 3” anti-missile missile on Thursday to intercept a surface-to-surface missile fired by Iran-backed Houthi terrorists from Yemen toward the Red Sea port city of Eilat.

The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen shot down a $30 million U.S. MQ-9 “Reaper” drone operating in international airspace.

The Israeli navy sent missile boats into the Red Sea on Wednesday to defend the southern approach to the country from missiles, drones, and other long-range attacks mounted by Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist rebels operating from Yemen.

Iran’s terrorist proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah, has conspicuously decided to back away from supporting Hamas in its war against Israel.

The Yemeni Houthi terrorist group took responsibility for a “large number of ballistic and cruise missiles” against the nation of Israel.

The Jewish state is facing a “hugely complicated” seven-front war against enemies within and beyond its borders — though “virtually all Arab countries” are “quietly cheering” for Israel, according to former commander of British forces in Afghanistan Colonel Richard Kemp, who blamed President Biden for “continuously appeasing” Iran, and called for “the strongest U.S. support for Israel in this conflict,” warning that further American “weakness” could encourage hostile nations to exploit the situation.

The governments of Saudi Arabia and South Korea published an extensive joint statement on Tuesday in which they addressed the ongoing aftermath of a barbaric massacre of civilians in Israel by the genocidal jihadist group Hamas, urging full protection for civilians in Israel and Hamas-controlled territories and “durable peace.”

A top South Korean official told reporters on Sunday that his government is in the “final stage” of an agreement to foster “large-scale defense industry cooperation” between Seoul and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The crew of the USS Carney shot down three land attack cruise missiles and several drones launched by Iranian-backed Houthi forces in Yemen.

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels fired missiles Wednesday at the U.S.S. Carney off the coast of Yemen, according to news reports.

Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen joined other Tehran proxies in the region on Tuesday to threaten attacks against American interests if the United States supports Israel against the Hamas terrorists.

Entities known to maintain friendly ties to the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas, from the Iranian Islamist regime to Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, have enjoyed years of financial benefits from eased sanctions under leftist President Joe Biden – benefits meriting closer scrutiny in light of the unprecedented wave of terrorism striking Israel on Saturday.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has requested a classified briefing for “all 435” members of the House on national security threats at the U.S. border with Mexico after reports that a smuggler with ties to ISIS was found bringing people across the border this summer.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report on Monday accusing Saudi Arabian border guards of systematically murdering hundreds of Ethiopian migrants between March 2022 and June 2023. HRW noted that if the allegations are proven, they would constitute a “crime against humanity.”

The BBC reported “chaos” at Port Sudan, even hours after midnight on Sunday, as thousands of foreigners and Sudanese frantically tried to get out of the country before vicious warfare between rival junta factions resumed in earnest.

A crowd apparently panicked by gunfire and an electrical explosion stampeded at an event to distribute financial aid during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Yemen’s capital late Wednesday, killing at least 78 people and injuring at least 73 others, according to witnesses and Houthi rebel officials.

The Houthi-run Saba Yemen News Agency revealed on Sunday that a delegation from Saudi Arabia, accompanied by diplomats from Oman, met senior Houthi leaders in the occupied capital, Sana’a, for peace talks.

China’s state-run Global Times on Friday hailed the China-brokered resumption of diplomatic relationships between Saudi Arabia and Iran as a major milestone in Beijing’s ascension as a global power, and the corresponding sunset of American influence under President Joe Biden.

London’s Metropolitan Police arrested 1,470 people from five states whose nationals’ asylum claims will now be fast-tracked without officials even talking to them in 2022 alone, Breitbart Europe can reveal. 

The Pentagon is considering sending illicit weapons intercepted from Iran to Ukraine, according to a defense official.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – French naval forces in January seized thousands of assault rifles, machine guns, and anti-tank missiles in the Gulf of Oman coming from Iran heading to Yemen’s Houthi rebels, officials said Thursday, the latest such interdiction amid the Mideast nation´s long-running war.

The U.S. Navy intercepted an Iranian fishing vessel in the Gulf of Oman carrying 2,000 AK-47 “assault rifles” bound for Yemen on Friday.

African Christians endured another grim year in 2022, especially in turbulent Somalia and Nigeria, where Islamist gangs such as Boko Haram and the Islamic State wiped out entire villages and Christian farmers clashed with herdsmen from the Fulani tribe.