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March 29, 2026 11:59 AM

West Asia conflict escalates as Iran intensifies Gulf strikes; Israel hits Tehran, Houthis open new front

Defence forces across the Gulf are on high alert this Sunday as Iran presses ahead with waves of missile and drone attacks on the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain now well into the second month of the conflict that began with the joint US-Israeli assault on Tehran. The latest strikes seem to be a direct response to earlier US and Israeli attacks on two major Iranian steel plants, with Tehran now targeting equivalent industrial assets in the Gulf. Emirates Global Aluminium has confirmed damage to its Al T...

March 29, 2026 11:30 AM

Yemen’s Houthis enter Iran war with attacks on Israel, while US Marines arrive in region

The risk of an expanded Iran war grew as Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis on Saturday launched their first attacks on Israel since the start of the conflict, as additional U.S. forces reached the Middle East. Washington has dispatched thousands of Marines to the Middle East in the month-old war. The ‌first of two contingents arrived on Friday on an amphibious assault ship, the U.S. military said on Saturday. The Washington Post reported on Saturday that U.S. officials said the Pentagon was pr...

March 13, 2026 4:55 PM

Why haven’t the Houthis, Iran’s allies in Yemen, stepped into the war?

Iran's Shi'ite allies in Lebanon and Iraq have joined the war in the region unleashed by U.S. and Israeli strikes on Tehran. But Yemen's Houthi rebels, heavily armed and capable of striking Gulf neighbours and causing major disruption to maritime navigation around the Arabian Peninsula, have not yet entered the fray. Here is a look at why that might be: WHO ARE THE HOUTHIS? The Houthis are a military, political and religious movement led by the Houthi family and based in northern Yemen. They ...

October 31, 2025 3:27 PM

Houthis say 43 detained UN staff to face trial over Israeli attack

Forty-three detained local United Nations staff will face trial on suspicion of links to an Israeli airstrike that assassinated top Houthi leaders in August, the acting foreign minister of Yemen’s Houthi government, Abdulwahid Abu Ras, told Reuters. In August, the prime minister of Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi-run government and several other ministers were killed in an Israeli strike on the capital Sanaa, in the first such attack to kill senior officials. The United Nations has repeatedly rej...

October 8, 2025 11:04 PM

US targets Chinese companies over drone components used by Hamas, Houthis

The United States said on Wednesday it was adding 15 Chinese companies to its restricted trade list for facilitating the purchase of American electronic components found in drones operated by Iranian proxies including Houthi and Hamas militants. Ten companies in China were designated for the Commerce Department's so-called Entity List, for facilitating the purchase of components found in weaponized unmanned aircraft systems operated by proxies including Yemen's Houthi militants, according to a ...

September 16, 2025 7:22 PM

Israeli military strikes Yemen’s Red Sea port of Hodeidah

The Israeli military struck Yemen's Red Sea port of Hodeidah on Tuesday, Al Masirah TV, a station affiliated with the Houthi movement, reported on Tuesday, hours after Israel issued an evacuation order for the port. The Houthis, a political and military group that controls the most populous parts of Yemen, have attacked vessels in the Red Sea in what they describe as acts of solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza. They have also fired missiles towards Israel, most of which have been intercep...

July 21, 2025 4:15 PM

Israel Strikes Houthi Targets at Yemen’s Hodeidah Port Over Alleged Military Use

The Israeli military has confirmed that it struck targets at the port of Hodeidah in Yemen, claiming the facilities were being used by the Houthi movement for military purposes. Colonel Avichay Adraee, spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), said in a post on X that the operation targeted infrastructure belonging to what he described as the “terrorist Houthi regime.” According to Adraee, the strikes destroyed engineering equipment used to rebuild port facilities, fuel barrels, and...

July 10, 2025 5:06 PM

Israel says missile launched from Yemen was intercepted

Yemen's Houthi militant group said on Thursday they had attacked Israel's Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv area with a ballistic missile, while the Israeli military said the missile from Yemen was intercepted after air raid sirens were triggered in several parts of the country. Most of the dozens of missiles and drones they have launched have been intercepted or fallen short. Israel has carried out a series of retaliatory strikes. The Iran-aligned Houthis have been firing at Israel and attacki...

July 7, 2025 12:10 PM

Israel attacks Houthi targets in three Yemeni ports and power plant

Israel has attacked Houthi targets in three Yemeni ports and a power plant, the Israeli military said early on Monday, marking the first Israeli attack on Yemen in almost a month. The strikes on Hodeidah, Ras Isa and Salif ports, and Ras Qantib power plant were due to repeated Houthi attacks on Israel, the military added. Hours after the strikes, the Israeli military said two missiles were launched from Yemen and attempts were made to intercept them, but the results of interception were still ...

July 6, 2025 11:21 AM

Israeli military says intercepted missile launched from Yemen

The Israeli military said on Sunday that it has intercepted a missile launched from Yemen towards Israel. Sirens were activated across several areas in Israel in accordance with protocol, it said. Israel threatened Yemen's Houthi movement with a naval and air blockade if it the Iran-aligned group persists with attacks on Israel, in what it says is solidarity with Gaza. Since the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023, the Houthis have been firing at Israel and at shipping in the Red Sea, di...