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The Houthis claimed missile and drone attacks on five ships (excluding Laax), on the same day USCENTCOM forces claim to have shot down 2 Houthi drones over the Red Sea. The Greece-flagged Minerva Antonia , a chemical and oil tanker anchored off Egypt, was targeted in the Mediterranean, making it the second claimed Houthi attack in that sea.
Houthi media outlets announced on 23 April that Saleh Ali al-Sammad had been killed in an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition the previous week. [127] On 7 May, airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition hit Yemen's presidency building. The attack left at least 6 people dead, all of whom were civilians. 30 people were also wounded in the airstrikes ...
The attacks caused a decline in shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. [7] In January 2024, the United States and United Kingdom began retaliatory strikes against the Houthis in Yemen, seeking to degrade their capabilities. [4] The strikes killed 40 people and injured 35 others, according to the Houthis. [8]
CAIRO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. Navy destroyers escorting three merchant vessels through the Gulf of Aden defeated an attack by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.
The statement by a Houthi representative on social media site X came shortly after the group's leader said it was ramping up attacks on ships in the Red Sea and other waters - including with new ...
Since 12 January 2024, the United States of America and the United Kingdom, with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, [13] have launched a series of cruise missile and airstrikes, codenamed Operation Poseidon Archer, against the Houthi movement (Ansar Allah) in Yemen in response to Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea. [14]
In response, the U.S. has struck Houthi vessels in waters near Yemen, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, during a visit to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, warned that the Houthis would face ...
The Houthi takeover in Yemen, also known by the Houthis as the September 21 Revolution, [7] or 2014–15 Yemeni coup d'état (by opponents), [8] was a popular revolution against Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi led by the Houthis and their supporters that pushed the Yemeni government from power.