The Latest Breaking News from Yemen

UK takes centre stage in Red Sea action, targeting Yemen’s Houthis

Three Royal Navy Frigates are now in the region, as the UK ramps up to its biggest military footprint since the Cold War

Al Jazeera · Jan 16, 2024

OPINION - The Houthi crisis shows extremist Islam is still a threat — and the war on terror is back

In his Commons statement yesterday, Rishi Sunak was right to characterise last Thursday’s strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen as “limited, not escalatory” and a necessary act of self-defence after the unconscionable attacks on civilian and military shipping in the Red Sea.

Evening Standard · Jan 16, 2024

US-UK airstrikes force aid agencies to suspend operations in Yemen

Charities warns of ‘dire’ outcome for the impoverished country, where two-thirds of the population already relies on aid to survive

The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2024

Houthi militants struck a U.S.-owned commercial ship off the coast of Yemen

No injuries or significant damage was reported from the strike, but the attack is adding to concerns about the war in Gaza spilling into a larger and more complicated regional conflict.

WEKU · Jan 15, 2024

Houthi rebels strike a U.S.-owned ship off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, raising tensions

Houthi rebels fired a missile, striking a U.S.-owned ship Monday just off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden

The Independent UK · Jan 15, 2024

Houthi attacks continue as US cargo ship hit in defiance of strikes on Yemen

Gibraltar Eagle vessel not seriously damaged in assault that raises some doubts over efficacy of UK-US action

The Guardian - UK · Jan 15, 2024

Yemen’s Houthis hit US-owned ship in missile attack, US military says

US military says the container ship was hit off the coast of Yemen, but continued its journey.

Al Jazeera · Jan 15, 2024

UK will ‘back words with actions’, says Sunak as Houthis strike US-owned ship off Yemen coast

PM says Britain prepared to take further action, as American-owned vessel hit by rebel forces in Gulf of Aden

The Independent UK · Jan 15, 2024

Rishi Sunak: UK willing to take further military action against Houthis

Prime minister addresses MPs hours after Yemen-based group fires on another container ship in Red Sea

The Guardian - UK · Jan 15, 2024

OPINION - Londoners cheering for Hamas and the Houthis is proof something is rotten in our democracy

It’s an odd thing, watching people raised in liberal democracies support totalitarian regimes, and it fascinates me, because democracies are peculiarly vulnerable from within. What, when British people call for victory for Hamas, rather than the Palestinians of Gaza who have not elected a government since 2006, or the Houthis…

Evening Standard · Jan 15, 2024