The European Union wants to send at least three warships to safeguard vessels in the Red Sea facing attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels. The attacks have forced ships, which travel up the Red Sea to the Suez Canal, to take long detours around the Horn of Africa. Over 2,000 diverted thousands of miles to avoid the Red Sea, causing weeks of delays. Britain joined the United States in the attack against the Houthi targets as fighter jets from bases in the region and off the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower struck targets with precision-guided bombs. Thursday’s attack drew the United States more deeply into a conflict that ignited after Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October, killing 1,200.
