Statement by US CENTCOM said missiles were launched by Houthis from areas of Yemen under their control and posed an imminent threat to US Navy ships and merchant vessels.
Over the past three months Israel has repeatedly struck at Iranian targets in Syria, while Iranian-backed groups in Syria and Iraq have fired at US targets in those countries.
The ongoing strikes are one of the most dramatic demonstrations to date of the widening of Israel-Hamas war in the Middle East since its eruption in October.
For the moment, Israel's conflict in Gaza provides enough legitimacy to deploy substantial peacekeeping forces through the Red Sea, but the model is unsustainable.
Just because India's increased oil imports proved beneficial after Russia-Ukraine war doesn't mean Modi govt should continue with it. Israel-Hamas conflict could hurt us now.
Houthi missile attack in the Red Sea holds out an important lesson for the West: Efforts to keep the Israel-Palestine crisis contained to Gaza are unlikely to succeed.
The group targeted commercial tanker STRINDA with a rocket after crew refused to respond to all warnings, Houthi military spokesperson Yehia Sareea said in a televised statement.
The attack on the tanker STRINDA took place about 60 nautical miles (111km) north of the Bab al-Mandab Strait connecting the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden at about 2100 GMT.
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
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