Defense

by Mariam Farida (The Conversation) Days after a drone attack killed three US soldiers at a military outpost in Jordan – an attack blamed on a shadowy

In an insightful interview yesterday with Lester Holt of NBC, retired Admiral James Stavridis, the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, provided

By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) – The United States carried out retaliatory airstrikes on Friday in Iraq and Syria

Denmark is sending the frigate Iver Huitfeldt to join the US-led naval coalition, Operation Prosperity Guardian, to help protect freedom of navigation in the

Houthi officials claim to have launched a missile attack targeting the U.S. Navy’s afloat expeditionary sea base, USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB 3). However,

By Captain John Konrad (gCaptain OpEd) Last week, two US-flagged ships manned by US Merchant Mariners were targeted by Houthis and forced to turn around. This

By Jack Kim SEOUL, Jan 29 (Reuters) – North Korea tested its new strategic cruise missiles for the second time in a week on Sunday, calling it

BEIJING/SHANGHAI, Jan 28 (Reuters) – The Chinese coastguard said it had made “temporary special arrangements” to allow the Philippines to

LONDON, Jan 28 (Reuters) – A British warship, the HMS Diamond, repelled a drone attack on Saturday from Yemen’s Houthi group in the Red Sea,

By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) – U.S. and British forces carried out a new round of strikes on Monday in Yemen, targeting

By Dan Whitcomb Jan 21 (Reuters) – Two U.S. Navy SEALs who went missing in the Gulf of Aden earlier this month during a raid on an Iranian ship have

AL-ARISH, Egypt, Jan 21 (Reuters) – About 1,000 people from Gaza have been treated in a French field hospital aboard a ship off the coast of Egypt,

LONDON, Jan 21 (Reuters) – Britain’s Ministry of Defence said on Sunday it would spend 405 million pounds ($514 million) to upgrade a missile

By Kanishka Singh and Enas Alashray WASHINGTON/CAIRO, Jan 20 (Reuters) – U.S. Central Command forces on Saturday struck a Houthi anti-ship

LONDON, Jan 20 (Reuters) – Two British Royal Navy mine-hunter vessels were involved in a collision in a port in Bahrain, the

By Andrew Gray, John Irish and Sabine Siebold BRUSSELS/PARIS, Jan 16 (Reuters) – European Union member states have given initial backing to a naval

The U.S. Navy has announced a significant seizure of Iranian weaponry destined for Houthi forces in Yemen, marking the first confiscation of such advanced

By Kitty Donaldson (Bloomberg) The UK wants a reduction of tensions in the Red Sea and that air strikes on Houthi positions in Yemen last week were

(Bloomberg) As the US and UK launch airstrikes to stop Iran-backed Houthi rebels from attacking ships in the Red Sea, China again finds itself happily sitting

CAIRO (Reuters) – The Marshall Islands-flagged tanker seized by Iran in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday has been located east of Iran’s Qeshm