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| US intends to convene coalition over Houthi attacks in Red Sea | |
| 2023-12-16 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] United States December 15 may announce the deployment of coalition forces in the Red Sea to counter Houthi attacks on civilian ships. Axios writes about this on December 15, citing sources among officials in Israel and the United States.
It is noted that earlier the American administration sent warnings to the Houthis through several channels, in which they demanded to stop attacking ships. Also, US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking, who recently visited the Gulf countries, asked his colleagues in Saudi Arabia, Oman and Qatar to convey to the Houthis the extreme US concern about their attacks. threatening freedom of navigation in international waters. According to sources, several states have sent such warnings to the Houthis in the past few weeks, but these messages have not yet led to any results. As reported by IA Regnum, on December 14, the military representative of the Houthis Yahya Saria reporteda drone attack on the container ship Maersk Gibraltar of the Danish company Maersk in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. He clarified that the Shiite movement had to hit the ship because it did not respond to a warning from the Yemeni navy. The Houthis attacked a tanker with oil and chemicals near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on December 12 Strinda. A missile hit the ship, causing a fire on board. The tanker was flying the Norwegian flag from Malaysia and was sent to a safe port after the attack. | |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 Shouldn't take more that a year, two at the most, to form such a coalition and start acting. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-12-16 07:43 |