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Nov 21, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Emily Milliken
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Subscribe to RSS Print Topic: Security Region: Middle East Tags: HouthisRed SeaDonald TrumpTerrorismYemenJoe Biden Yemen’s rebel group is squarely in the sights of the incoming administration’s “Iran hawks.” <![CDATA[// ><!]]> --> Shortly after Donald Trump was declared the forty-seventh president of the United States, a social media account circulated a claim that the Houthis’ military spokesman had declared a cessation of their operations...
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
gulfif.org | Mary Smith |Emily Milliken
On July 15, three men opened fire on the Imam Ali mosque in Muscat as worshippers gathered for prayers on the eve of the Shiite mourning festival of Ashura. The attack, which was later claimed by ISIS, killed at least six people and wounded thirty others.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Emily Milliken
On June 11, United States intelligence made a startling claim: Yemen’s Houthi rebels are looking to cooperate with Al Qaeda’s Somali affiliate al-Shabaab and are discussing a deal to provide the Somali fighters with weapons. The potential agreement would reportedly provide advanced weapons systems to al-Shabaab in return for much-needed revenue for the Houthis. Still, the deal would also mean a new strategic relationship that could benefit the rebels.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
spectator.org | Emily Milliken
Recent indications that Iran tried to establish a naval base in Sudan have called the Iranian regime’s intentions in the Red Sea into question. A Wall Street Journal report last month cited a Sudanese intelligence officer who claimed that Tehran had requested to establish a permanent naval base on Sudan’s Red Sea coast in exchange for providing the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) with a helicopter carrier.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
washingtontimes.com | Emily Milliken
OPINION: On Feb. 24, the U.S. Central Command announced that it had conducted, alongside the United Kingdom, another round of strikes on Yemen’s Houthis, a small, Iranian-backed rebel group that commanded little international attention until it began a series of unnerving attacks on maritime shipping in mid-October. The operation hit 18 targets, including Houthi underground weapons storage sites, missile storage sites, one-way attack drones, air defense systems, radars and a helicopter.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
gulfif.org | Anas Al Qaed |Emily Milliken
On February 10, Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for an attack on the General Gordon military base in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. According to the Emirati Defense Ministry, the raid killed four Emirati soldiers and one Bahraini, all of whom were deployed on a mission to train soldiers from the Somali Armed Forces. Reports indicate that the gunman, who had defected from al-Shabaab before being recruited by Somalia and the UAE, had opened fire on the forces as they had started to pray.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Emily Milliken
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInSubscribe to RSSPrintTopic: DefenseRegion: Middle EastTags: U.S. MilitaryJordanIranHezbollahDrone AttackLast Sunday’s attack showed that the U.S.-Jordan relationship could be in the crosshairs of Iran’s proxy network. On January 28, a drone strike conducted by the Iran-linked Kataib Hezbollah group killed three U.S. soldiers and injured more than forty others at a remote logistics base on the border of Syria, Iraq, and Jordan.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
gulfif.org | Anas Al Qaed |Emily Milliken
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis have bounced back after successive American and British airstrikes targeted the militant group’s offensive capabilities. Despite Western joint operations that sought to degrade the Houthis’ ability to threaten maritime traffic in the Red Sea, they have continued to strike merchant ships off the coast of Yemen in recent weeks.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
trtworld.com | Emily Milliken
Somali pirates are back — and they may have forged a new alliance, which should concern the international community On January 4th, the Indian Navy rescued a crew of 21 sailors from being hijacked by pirates. The ship, the MV Lila Norfolk, was seized off the coast of Somalia while en route to Bahrain. This attempted hijacking came on the back of four recorded attacks in late 2023 involving Somali pirates in the span of a month.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
freeread.causeaction.com | Emily Milliken
We support our Publishers and Content Creators. You can view this story on their website by CLICKING HERE. The world is left wondering how the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen will respond to a series of devastating strikes on the group’s military assets. On January 11, the United States and the United Kingdom launched over 100 precision-guided missiles at Houthi targets in Yemen in response to weeks of Houthi attacks on civilian and military vessels in the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
