When Iranian-backed militias repeatedly focused U.S. troops in Syria and Iraq this fall, the Biden administration struck again with drive. Motion was wanted, officers mentioned, to discourage the teams from turning Israel’s battle with Hamas right into a wider conflict. However the US has not but retaliated in opposition to one Iranian-backed group: the Houthis…
A industrial ship was hit and set on fireplace by an anti-ship cruise missile within the southern Purple Sea, an assault U.S. officers say got here from the Iranian-backed Houthi militia in Yemen. The Strinda, a Norwegian motor tanker, was hit by “what is assessed to have been an anti-ship cruise missile launched from a…
The Iran-backed Houthi militia that controls northern Yemen threatened on Saturday to dam any vessel crusing to Israeli ports, increasing its earlier warnings to ships passing by the Purple and Arabian Seas. The Houthi militia had already threatened to focus on ships owned or operated by Israelis, and its fighters had been nonetheless holding a…
By Ahmed Rasheed and Timour Azhari BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Iraq’s authorities condemned in a single day U.S. airstrikes south of Baghdad that killed eight members of Iran-aligned Iraqi paramilitary group Kataib Hezbollah, saying they had been a “dangerous escalation” not coordinated with authorities. The U.S. has carried out two sequence of strikes in Iraq since Tuesday,…
Yemen’s Houthi militia released a video on Monday displaying its forces hijacking the ship Galaxy Chief, a day after asserting it had seized the vessel within the Purple Sea as an illustration of help for “the oppressed Palestinian people.” The video, whose authenticity was verified by The New York Instances, exhibits no less than 10…
