Updated Jan. 16, 2024 6:45 pm ET WASHINGTON—The Biden administration plans to put the Houthi rebel group back on one of its lists of terrorist organizations, days after the U.S. launched strikes on its facilities in Yemen in retaliation for months of attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea, officials said. The placement as a … Read more
Updated Jan. 16, 2024 2:07 pm ET The U.S. military was searching for two Navy SEALs lost at sea during an operation that seized Iranian-made missile parts bound for Houthi rebels in Yemen, as the U.S. launched another series of strikes against the group. The waters off the Yemen coastline have become a zone of … Read more
Sirens were heard at the US Embassy in Iraq Thursday night, according to reports on social media. Reports of a bomb, shared at about 02:00 Israel time in The Jerusalem Post‘s sister publication Maariv, could not be confirmed as of later that night. The reports came after the US and Britain struck dozens of targets … Read more
Updated Jan. 11, 2024 7:58 am ET Armed, uniformed men boarded an oil tanker off the coast of Oman that has been at the center of a dispute between Iran and the U.S. and changed its course toward Iranian waters on Thursday, according to maritime intelligence firms, marking a further escalation along shipping routes in … Read more
Updated Jan. 3, 2024 5:30 pm ET WASHINGTON—The U.S., Britain and key allies issued what officials described as a final warning to the Houthi Yemeni rebel group Wednesday to cease its attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea or bear the consequences. “Ongoing Houthi attacks in the Red Sea are illegal, unacceptable, and profoundly … Read more
Iran’s dispatch of a warship to the Red Sea is its most audacious move yet to challenge US forces in the key trade route, emboldening Houthi militants whose missiles have disrupted shipping over the past two months. Tehran is unlikely to want direct confrontation — its old frigate being no match for the US-led maritime … Read more
Oil rose after Iran sent a warship to the Red Sea in response to the US Navy’s sinking of three Houthi boats over the weekend, adding to regional tensions as ships continue to avoid the key waterway. Brent crude climbed above $78 a barrel after declining by 5% over the prior three sessions, with West … Read more
Loved ones of an 82nd Airborne pilot, badly injured in a drone strike in Iraq, are asking for prayers and support. Garrett Illerbrunn is stationed out of Fort Liberty. He lives in Pinehurst with his wife, Lorna, and son, Tucker. On Christmas Day, he was serving at Erbil Air Base in northern Iraq when the … Read more
Iran dispatched a warship to the Red Sea after the US Navy destroyed three Houthi boats, a move that risks ratcheting up tensions and complicates Washington’s goal of securing a waterway that’s vital to global trade. The Alborz destroyer traversed the Bab El-Mandeb strait, a narrow choke point between the Red Sea and the Gulf … Read more
Updated Dec. 26, 2023 10:15 am ET Iran has tripled production of nearly weapons-grade uranium in a move likely to deepen its confrontation with the West as Tehran helps allied militias to attack Israel and U.S. forces in the region. Iran’s decision to triple its production rate of near-weapons-grade uranium marks the collapse of quiet … Read more