...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
-controlled areas in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
into international shipping lanes in the southern Red Sea.
The US warship shot down "four unmanned aerial drones" that were "inbound to the USS LABOON," CENTCOM wrote on X. No injuries were reported in the incident.
It reported further attacks on two vessels — one Norwegian-flagged and one Indian-flagged — in the Red Sea, bringing the total number of Houthi attacks on fat merchantmen to 15 since October 7.
The Iran-backed Houthis have been waging a campaign of missile and drone attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea in retaliation for Israel’s war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] In the Red Sea, the Houthis carried out a drone attack on two oil tankers sailing under the flags of Norway and India, US Navy Central Command reported on December 23 on social media.
The US military received information about attacks on tankers in the southern part of the sea in the evening.
“The Norwegian-flagged vessel BLAAMANEN, operated as a chemical and oil tanker, reported a miss by a Houthi strike drone, with no casualties or damage reported. The second vessel, SAIBABA, a Gabonese-owned Indian-flagged crude oil tanker, reported a collision with a drone, with no injuries reported,” the US Navy said in a statement.
The American destroyer Laboon responded to the distress calls. The attacks were the 14th and 15th times Houthi militants have attacked commercial ships since October 17, the military said.