The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen said on Sunday they will begin limiting their wanton attacks on civilian ships in the Red Sea to Israeli vessels, but added they could resume attacking ships from other countries if the Gaza ceasefire agreement does not hold.
Shipping giants Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd told reporters on Thursday they are not yet prepared to return to the Red Sea shipping lanes after the peace deal announced between Israel and Hamas.
The Biden administration on Monday transferred 11 Yemeni prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Oman, reducing the total number of detainees remaining at Guantanamo to 15. The facility held around 800 detainees at peak population.
The Biden administration released 11 Yemeni terrorists, who were captured after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, from Guantanamo Bay.
The Iranian theocracy on Thursday commemorated the fifth anniversary of the death of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the chief terrorist mastermind of the world’s worst state sponsors of terrorism.
The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen fired another ballistic missile at Israel late Monday night, reminding Israelis that there is still unfinished business in the war that Hamas launched with the October 7, 2023, terror attack.
A U.S.-made-and-supplied Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense battery was reportedly used on Friday morning against a ballistic missile fired by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen at Israel.
The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels fired yet another missile at central Israel early Friday morning, sending millions of Israelis to bomb shelters in the middle of the night, despite Thursday’s counterattack by Israeli forces in Yemen.
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), was in the international airport in Sana’a, Yemen, on Thursday when it was attacked by the Israel Air Force (IAF).
Israeli Prime Minsiter Benjamin Netanyahu spoke Thursday, after the Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck multiple targets across Yemen, the fourth Israeli counterattack against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels and the most ambitious thus far.
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck targets across Yemen on Thursday during the speech of Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, striking the port city of Hodeida and the international airport in the capital city of Sana’a in the interior.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lit the first candle of Hanukkah in Jerusalem, Israel, on Wednesday evening, and warned Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who have been firing missiles and drones from Yemen that they are about to learn a lesson.
The Iran-backed Houthi rebels launched a ballistic missile at Israel overnight on Christmas Eve into Christmas Day, sending millions of Israelis into bomb shelters in the middle of the night for the second night in a row.
Israel said this week that it will begin targeting Houthi rebel leaders in Yemen, just as it has targeted the leaders of Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, in order to stop the Iranian-backed group from firing missiles at Israel.
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urged Syrians on Sunday to rise up against the insurgents who toppled Tehran’s puppet dictator, Bashar Assad. Khamenei claimed the rebel assault that ended five decades of rule by the Assad dynasty was organized and directed by the United States and Israel.
The USS Gettysburg guided missile cruiser mistakenly shot down an American fighter jet in the early morning hours of Sunday in what United States Central Command called “an apparent case of friendly fire.”
Israel conducted its third long-range airstrike on the terrorist Houthi militia in Yemen early Thursday morning, hours after the rebels fired a ballistic missile at Israel’s population centers that was intercepted outside Israeli airspace.
Israel is reportedly preparing massive retaliation against the Houthis in Yemen, Iran’s last major terrorist proxy army, after the rebel group fired another ballistic missile Monday that triggered air raid sirens in central Israel.
U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking said on Thursday that leaders of the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen have decided to keep lower profiles following the devastation of Iran’s other regional proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas, at the hands of Israel, followed by the overthrow of Iran’s client Bashar Assad in Syria by a Sunni Islamist insurgency.
Canada announced it would place the Iran-backed Houthi jihadists of Yemen on its official list of designated terrorist entities.
The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen fired another ballistic missile at Israel on Sunday morning, in a gesture of defiance against President-elect Donald Trump and despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary of the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen seizing the car carrier MV Galaxy Leader and taking its crew hostage.
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.
Ansarullah, the Iran-backed jihadist movement in Yemen commonly known as the Houthis, issued a statement mourning Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar on Friday, who Israeli forces eliminated on the battlefield in Gaza a day before.
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 Israel Defense Forces (IDF) successfully intercepted a surface-to-surface missile early Friday morning local time that had been launched at Tel Aviv by Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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.
The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen claimed on Sunday to have shot down another American MQ-9 Reaper drone.
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.
