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This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels say ‘any Israeli vessel’ in nearby Mideast waterways again a target

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have warned shippers that “any Israeli vessel” traveling through nearby Mideast waters is now a target as Israel continues to block aid to the Gaza Strip.

President Donald Trump walks across the South Lawn of the White House, Sunday, March 2, 2025, in Washington, after returning from a trip to Florida. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump administration again labels the Houthis a ‘foreign terrorist organization’

This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

UN food agency worker dies in a Yemeni prison after being detained by Houthi rebels

This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

UN suspends its humanitarian work in Houthi rebels’ stronghold in Yemen after more staff detentions

This photo released by the International Committee of the Red Cross shows its officials helping prisoners prepare to be freed by Yemen's Houthi rebels in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (International Committee of the Red Cross via AP)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels unilaterally release 153 war detainees, Red Cross says

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AP explains Israeli airstrikes on Yemen

Israel’s military launched airstrikes early Monday targeting ports and facilities held by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, with the rebels responding with missile fire targeting Israel. (AP video by Bassam Hatoum; AP production by Jon Gambrell)

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Yemen’s Houthi rebels threaten to resume attacks on US vessels if it joins Israel’s campaign on Iran

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels fire missiles at Israel, setting off nationwide air raid sirens

Israeli strikes in Sanaa destroy last plane of flagship carrier Yemenia

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F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet takes off from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower, also known as the 'IKE', in the south Red Sea, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

On the USS Eisenhower, 4 months of combat at sea facing Houthi missiles and a new sea threat

FILE - In this image provided the Ministry of Defence, an RAF Typhoon aircraft takes off to conduct further strikes against Houthi military targets in Yemen, from RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. Russia and China on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, accused the United States and Britain of illegally attacking military sites used by Yemen’s Houthi rebels to launch missiles at commercial vessels in the Red Sea, disrupting global shipping. (AS1 Jake Green/Ministry of Defence via AP, File)

Russia and China clash with US and UK over attacks on Yemen rebels for strikes on Red Sea ships

This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels fire missiles at ship bound for Iran, their main supporter

This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels target 2 ships in Red Sea and Gulf of Aden with ballistic missiles

This image provided by the U.S. Navy shows an aircraft launching from USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) during flight operations in the Red Sea, Jan. 22, 2024. The United States and Britain struck 36 Houthi sites in Yemen on Saturday, Feb. 3, in a second wave of assaults meant to further disable Iran-backed groups in the region. (Kaitlin Watt/U.S. Navy via AP)

US, Britain strike Yemen’s Houthis in a new wave, retaliating for attacks by Iran-backed militants

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a Pentagon press briefing at the Pentagon on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

US hints large response to Iran-backed militias is imminent as Houthi rebels target another ship

File - This photograph provided by the Indian Navy shows U.S.-owned ship Genco Picardy that came under attack Wednesday from a bomb-carrying drone launched by Yemen's Houthi rebels in the Gulf of Aden, Thursday, Jan.18, 2024. Attacks on ships in the Red Sea by Yemen's Houthi rebels have unraveled a key global trade route, forcing vessels into longer and more costly journeys around Africa. (Indian Navy via AP, File)

EU to launch a Red Sea naval mission within 3 weeks to protect ships from continued Houthi attacks

Houthi supporters attend a rally in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and against the U.S.-led airstrikes on Yemen, in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Yemen Houthi rebels fire a missile at a US warship, escalating worst Mideast sea conflict in decades

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This image provided by the U.S. Navy shows an aircraft launching from USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) during flight operations in the Red Sea, Jan. 22, 2024. The U.S. and British militaries bombed multiple targets in eight locations used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen on Monday night, the second time the two allies have conducted coordinated retaliatory strikes on an array of the rebels' missile-launching capabilities. (Kaitlin Watt/U.S. Navy via AP)

US, British militaries launch new round of joint strikes against multiple Houthi sites in Yemen

FILE - U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, who heads the Navy's Bahrain-based 5th Fleet, speaks at an event at the International Defense Exhibition and Conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Feb. 21, 2023. Iran is "very directly involved" in attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels on shipping over Israel's war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Cooper told The Associated Press on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

Iran is ‘directly involved’ in Yemen Houthi rebel ship attacks, US Navy’s Mideast chief tells AP

FILE - In this photo released by the Iranian Army on Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, a missile is launched during a military drill in southern Iran. (Iranian Army via AP, File)

Analysis: Risk of spiraling Mideast violence grows as war in Gaza inflames tensions

President Joe Biden speaks to the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024, in Washington. Biden is traveling to North Carolina to highlight $82 million in new investments that would connect 16,000 households and businesses to high-speed internet. (AP Photo/Yuri Gripas)

US forces strike Houthi sites in Yemen as Biden says allied action hasn’t yet stopped ship attacks

Houthi fighters and tribesmen stage a rally against the U.S. and the U.K. strikes on Houthi-run military sites near Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. (AP Photo)

US military launches another barrage of missiles against Houthi sites in Yemen

This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels attack a US-owned ship in the Gulf of Aden with bomb-carrying drone

Houthi fighters and tribesmen stage a rally against the U.S. and the U.K. strikes on Houthi-run military sites near Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. (AP Photo)

US pledges new sanctions over Houthi attacks will minimize harm to Yemen’s hungry millions

Jake Sullivan, U.S. National Security Advisor speaks during the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is taking place in Davos from Jan. 15 until Jan. 19, 2024.(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

US to relist Yemen’s Houthis as specially designated global terrorists, AP sources say

This undated photograph released by the U.S. military's Central Command shows what it is described as Iranian-made missile components bound for Yemen's Houthi seized off a vessel in the Arabian Sea. U.S. Navy SEALs seized Iranian-made missile parts and other weaponry from a ship bound for Yemen's Houthi rebels in a raid that saw two of its commandos go missing, the U.S. military said Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. (U.S. Central Command via AP)

Chaotic wave of attacks, reprisals in Middle East fuel worries of a broader regional war

The sun sets behind the buildings in the Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Live updates | Israeli hostages to get medicine delivery, and US bombs Yemen again

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gestures during his visit to The Boatyard in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England, Monday Jan. 15, 2024. (Phil Harris/Pool Photo via AP)

Rishi Sunak defends his decision for the UK to join the US in ‘limited’ strikes on Yemen’s Houthis

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The bulk carrier Gibraltar Eagle is seen off Kristiansand, Norway, June 29, 2023. Houthi rebels fired a missile striking the U.S.-owned ship Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, just off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, less than a day after they launched an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea. (AP Photo)

Houthi rebels strike a US-owned ship off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, raising tensions

FILE - Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks at a virtual Ukraine Defense Contact Group (UDCG) meeting, Nov. 22, 2023, at the Pentagon in Washington. Austin has been released from the hospital where he was treated for complications from surgery for prostate cancer he kept secret from senior Biden administration officials for weeks. Austin, 70, was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Dec. 22 and underwent surgery to treat cancer detected earlier in the month. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

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US, UK strikes target Yemen’s Houthis: AP explains

US, UK launch massive retaliatory strike against Iran-backed Houthis

In this image provided on Friday Jan. 12, 2024 by the UK Ministry of Defence an RAF Typhoon aircraft returns to base at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, after striking targets in Yemen. The U.S. and British militaries bombed more than a dozen sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen late on Thursday Jan. 11, in a massive retaliatory strike using warship- and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets, U.S. officials said. (Sgt Lee Goddard, UK Ministry of Defence via AP)

US military strikes another Houthi-controlled site after warning ships to avoid parts of Red Sea

Houthi supporters chant slogans as they attend a rally marking eight years for a Saudi-led coalition, on March 26, 2023, in Sanaa, Yemen. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Who are the Houthis and why did the US and UK retaliate for their attacks on ships in the Red Sea?

In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the amphibious dock landing ship USS Carter Hall and amphibious assault ship USS Bataan transit the Bab al-Mandeb strait on Aug. 9, 2023. The top commander of U.S. naval forces in the Middle East says Yemen’s Houthi rebels are showing no signs of ending their “reckless” attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea. But Vice Adm. Brad Cooper said in an Associated Press interview on Saturday that more nations are joining the international maritime mission to protect vessels in the vital waterway and trade traffic is beginning to pick up. (Mass Communications Spc. 2nd Class Moises Sandoval/U.S. Navy via AP)

US, British militaries launch massive retaliatory strike against Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen

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ADDS COUNTRY TO SOURCE - In this photo provided by the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, taken from the operation room of HMS Diamond, Sea Viper missiles are prepared to be fired in the Red Sea. Yemen’s Houthi rebels have fired their largest-ever barrage of drones and missiles targeting shipping in the Red Sea, forcing the United States and British navies to shoot down the projectiles in a major naval engagement. (UK Ministry of Defence via AP)

UN Security Council demands Houthi rebels stop Red Sea attacks in vote that implicitly condemns Iran