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After months of trying to contain tensions from boiling over into a broader Middle East conflict, the U.S. is escalating its military involvement in the region. In just 48 hours, Washington launched two major operations against what it says are Iran-backed targets, striking 36 Houthi targets in Yemen with help from the U.K. and support...

As the conflict between Israel and Hamas drags on, another player in the middle east is emerging, with potentially dire consequences for the global economy. With more on the Houthi rebels in Yemen, Bijan Ahmadi from Institute of Peace and Diplomacy joins Antony Robart.

U.S. and British officials say at least two crew members are dead, and several more are injured, after a ship navigating off the coast of Yemen was attacked by Iran-backed Houthi rebels on Wednesday. Kyle Benning reports.

U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told a press conference on Wednesday that the government will continue to hold the Houthis accountable after their latest attack on the Red Sea shipping route, which killed two crew members of a cargo ship off southern Yemen. These fatalities mark the first deaths by the Iran-backed group since...

The U.K.’s Rubymar cargo ship has become the first vessel to sink in the southern Red Sea amid an ongoing conflict with Yemeni Houthi, who have been attacking vessels in the crucial shipping waterway for months as part of their campaign against Israel’s war on Hamas. The Rubymar reportedly sank on March 1, 12 days...

The U.S. and Britain carried out dozens of air strikes on Houthi military targets overnight on Thursday, widening a regional conflict stemming from Israel’s war in Gaza. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Friday he believed the strikes by U.K. and the U.S. on Houthi military targets in Yemen will degrade the capability of...

Concerns in the Middle East are rising following U.S. and U.K. targeted airstrikes on Houthi-linked sites in Yemen. These airstrikes come as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wraps up his latest tour of the region. ‘The West Block’ guest host Eric Sorensen speaks with Frank Lowenstein, a former U.S. special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations,...

On Friday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, “The strikes by Houthi militia on maritime traffic on civilian and commercial vessels are absolutely unacceptable,” and added that “we support the very targeted actions taken by military assets from the U.K. and the U.S.”

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre told reporters on Friday that he agrees with Canada’s stance supporting the U.S. and U.K.-led strikes in Yemen against Iran’s Houthi rebels. “They’ve been interrupting vital trade routes, endangering allied soldiers and civilian sailors,” he said.

U.S. and British naval forces on Tuesday shot down 21 drones and missiles fired by Houthis, in what Blinken called the largest attack in the shipping corridor to date. U.S. National Security Council Coordinator John Kirby, meanwhile, called the attacks in the Red Sea “escalatory” and added that the Houthis would face “consequences” if they...

Yemen’s Houthis said Wednesday they had launched an attack on a U.S. ship they say was “providing support” to Israel. The group’s military spokesperson said they had fired a large number of ballistic and naval missiles and drones on the ship.

The U.S. and U.K. have begun carrying strikes on Houthi-related targets in Yemen on Thursday, in response to months of attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea. According to the Associated Press, U.S. officials say a dozen sites — including air defence and weapon storage — are being targeted by Tomahawk missiles and fighter...

Concerns in the Middle East are rising following U.S. and U.K. targeted airstrikes on Houthi-linked sites in Yemen. These airstrikes come as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wraps up his latest tour of the region. ‘The West Block’ guest host Eric Sorensen speaks with Frank Lowenstein, a former U.S. special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations,...

In the Middle East, tensions are escalating beyond the crisis in Gaza, after a series of joint British-American strikes on Houthi rebels late Thursday — retaliation to the Iran-backed group’s attacks on ships travelling in the Red Sea since November. According to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, missiles and aircraft struck 60 targets in...

Speaking at the White House briefing on Wednesday, U.S. National Security spokesperson John Kirby said that countries are becoming more aware of the “increasing threat to the free flow of commerce in the Red Sea” under Houthi attacks, and that they are increasingly willing to “express their discomfort.”

An aide to the leader of Yemen’s Houthi movement said on Tuesday that the U.S. “will not escape punishment and retaliation,” after sinking three Houthi boats and killing 10 militants in the Red Sea. Safar Al-Sufi, secretary to Houthi leader Abdel-Malek al-Houthi said at a press conference in Sanaa that America’s “reckless actions” on behalf...

Following a series of joint British-American strikes on Houthi rebels late Thursday, the U.S. launched another attack on the Yemen-operated group Friday, triggering anger and defiance from Palestinian supporters in Yemen amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict.

Missile attacks struck across the Middle East on Saturday, hitting Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq — with the latter injuring some American troops at an air base. Iran is blaming Israel and vowing revenge for a missile strike in Syria, which it says killed five members of its Revolutionary Guard, including the forces’ intelligence chief in...

The U.S. revealed it put Yemen’s Houthi rebels back on its list of specially designated global terrorists on Wednesday, following a series of attacks on Israel-affiliated vessels on the Red Sea. The move hits the Iran-backed fighters with harsh sanctions that could cripple their ability to fund attacks in vital Red Sea shipping lanes.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Monday that strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen were unrelated to Israel’s war with Hamas militants in Gaza. Speaking in Parliament, Sunak added that the strikes were an act of self-defence and were “carefully targeted at launch sites for drones and ballistic missiles” in Yemen’s Bani and at Abs...