Due to ‘volatile’ situation amid Houthi attacks, ships will go around Africa, increasing journey times and shipping costs. Container shipping giant Maersk has announced it will divert all vessels around Africa instead of using the Red Sea and the Suez Canal for the “foreseeable future”. Maersk said on Friday that…
US Secretary of State Blinken due to visit as Israel’s war on Gaza widens to Lebanon and threatens to engulf region. The United States is to engage in a renewed diplomatic push to calm tensions in the Middle East as the region teeters on the brink of a regional conflagration…
EXPLAINER A drone strike in Lebanon killed senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri – here are the latest updates. Here’s how things stand on Wednesday, January 3, 2024: Latest updates: The Israeli army has launched attacks on Syria and Lebanon. It announced on X on Tuesday that it attacked Syrian military…
WASHINGTON – Iran wasted no time sending a warship into the Red Sea on Monday, just a day after the US killed 10 Houthi fighters attacking commercial vessels in the contentious waters that separate Africa from the Middle East. Tehran’s Alborz destroyer crossed the Bab-el-Mandeb strait and into the sea…
Alborz warship enters Bab al-Mandeb Strait, Iranian media reports a day after Yemen’s Houthis say 10 fighters killed. Iran’s Alborz warship has entered the Red Sea through the strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait, Iran’s Tasnim news agency has reported, at a time of heightened tensions over the globally important waterway. “The…
The US military said that it sunk three Houthi vessels in the Red Sea in a statement on Sunday, and killed 10 fighters of the Yemeni armed group after a clash in the middle of one of the world’s most important trade waterways. The escalation follows weeks of Houthi attacks…
Global shipping giant Maersk is suspending operations in the Red Sea for 48 hours after the attack. The United States military says it has sunk three boats waging an attack on a container ship in the Red Sea as it continues its patrol mission to counter threats from Yemen’s Houthi…
Houthis claim responsibility for drone attack on Israeli port city of Eilat, Red Sea commercial vessel. Yemen’s Houthi rebel group has said that it carried out drone attacks targeting the Israeli port city of Eilat, as well as a commercial vessel in the Red Sea, as the Iran-backed group steps…
Guided missile destroyers to ‘maintain deterrent presence’ after Israel-linked vessel hit off Indian coast. The Indian Navy has dispatched guided missile destroyers to the Arabian Sea after an attack on an Israel-linked chemical tanker off its coast, the Ministry of Defence said. Three stealth-guided destroyers were deployed “in various areas…
The US accusations are meant to ‘distract’ from Washington’s complicity in Israel’s ‘crimes in Gaza’, Iran’s FM says. Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has dismissed accusations of the United States that Tehran struck a chemical tanker in the Indian Ocean, as tension rises globally over threats to maritime shipping. A…
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