Radar infrastructure has been a key target in the US military effort to halt Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. “Your strikes on Yemen are terrorism,” said Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, a member of the Houthi Supreme Political Council. SpilloverThe Red Sea crisis is part of the violent regional spillover of Israel’s war with Hamas, an Iran-backed Islamist group, in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza. Commercial ship-tracking data showed at least nine oil tankers stopping or diverting from the Red Sea. Houthi attacks have forced commercial ships to take a longer, costlier route around Africa, creating fears of a new bout of inflation and supply chain disruption.

Source: Indian Express January 13, 2024 13:35 UTC