Yemen

The seizure comes after weeks of attacks by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels on shipping in the Red Sea

Secretary of State Antony Blinken begins his fourth trip to the region in Turkey expecting difficult conversations

Companies are rerouting around South Africa to avoid militia attacks in Yemen in one of the biggest disruptions to world trade since the Covid-19 pandemic

This will be the fourth time the Secretary of State visits the region since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October

It’s the first time the Houthis have used an unmanned surface vessel since their harassment of commercial ships in the Red Sea began after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war

The attacks on a crucial commercial artery under the pretext of solidarity with Gaza have increased the regional weight of the fundamentalist group, which controls nearly 30% of the Arab country

Included in the sanctions are the head of a financial intermediary in Sana’a, Yemen, along with three exchange houses in Yemen and Turkey

The Israeli Minister of Defense claims that his army has responded to aggression in six countries since the October 7 attacks. Tehran accuses Israel of assassinating a Revolutionary Guard general in Syria

A Doctors Without Borders report warns of a huge shortfall in meeting the global need caused by armed conflict and climate change

Mohammed Abdel-Salam, the Houthis’ chief negotiator challenged the U.S.-created coalition, saying the Iranian-backed rebels would continue targeting Israel-linked vessels off Yemen

Houthi rebels in Yemen have launched a series of attacks on vessels in the Red Sea, one of the world’s busiest shipping routes, and have launched drones and missiles targeting Israel

Three people arrested in Germany were suspected of preparing for attacks on Jewish institutions in Europe

The maritime campaign by the Iranian-backed Houthis endangers ships traveling through a vital corridor for cargo and energy shipments for both Europe and Asia

A missile fired from Houthi-controlled territory also missed a Hong Kong-flagged container ship traveling from Oman to Saudi Arabia on Thursday

The government temporarily closed the entire border amid concerns that Moscow was using migrants to destabilize Finland in an alleged act of ‘hybrid warfare’

A campaign by the Iranian-backed rebels imperils cargo and energy shipments coming through the Suez Canal and widens the international impact of the Israel-Hamas war

Washington wants to expand a maritime partnership after three commercial vessels were struck by missiles fired by Iranian-back Houthis in Yemen earlier this week

The strikes marked an escalation in a series of maritime attacks in the Mideast linked to the Israel-Hamas war

Finnish authorities accuses Moscow of using migrants to destabilize the Nordic country in an alleged act of ‘hybrid warfare’

The Kremlin rejected Finnish authorities’ claims that Russia has encouraged the influx of migrants at the border to punish Finland for joining NATO

The group warned that it would continue to target ships in international waters that were linked to or owned by Israelis until the end of Israel’s campaign against Gaza’s Hamas rulers

Demonstrators headed to Israeli military checkpoints in the West Bank and gathered in Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Yemen and other countries

The United Nations has already questioned Saudi Arabia about its troops opening fire on the migrants in an escalating pattern of attacks along its southern border with war-torn Yemen

The U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Yemen, said the five men, who included four Yemenis and one from Bangladesh, were ‘in good health, good spirits ... but they went through a very difficult period of isolation’

Blinken’s trip comes after the kingdom under Prince Mohammed has been more willing to disregard the U.S. in striking its own decisions, straining relations between Riyadh and Washington

The festivities are overshadowed in many parts of the region, like Sudan, Yemen and Indonesia by conflict and tragedy