The Latest Breaking News from Red Sea

Israeli and US air forces concluded their joint drills over the Red Sea to improve their capabilities in confronting and shooting down drones. The Israeli Army Radio (Galei Tzaha) reported that the Israeli Air Force and its US counterpart had recently carried out air maneuvers over the Red Sea. The…

Sudan's deputy head of state said on Wednesday his country had no problem with Russia or any other country opening a naval base on its Red Sea coast, provided it posed no threat to national security. General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, commonly known as Hemedti, deputy head of Sudan's sovereign council,…

The Saudi-led Arab coalition said on Friday it had destroyed a small boat launched by the Iran-backed Houthi militias in the south of the Red Sea that was loaded with explosives, Saudi state television reported on Friday. The coalition added that the boat had departed Yemen's main Red Sea port…

The Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-aligned Houthi forces in Yemen said it had destroyed a small Houthi boat in the south of the Red Sea that was loaded with explosives, Saudi state television reported on Friday.

There is no "immediate solution" to high oil prices, Bruno Jean-Richard Itoua, president of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), said on Wednesday. The oil-producing countries' capacity to increase crude supply is curtailed by a lack of investment in the industry, said Itoua, who is also Congo’s minister…

An agreement has been reached in principle on a UN-coordinated proposal that would transfer more than 1 million barrels of crude oil from a tanker that has been moored off the coast of war-torn Yemen since the 1980s to another ship, the UN humanitarian chief said Tuesday. Martin Griffiths told…

Works are under way to expand the two-way section of the Suez canal to 82 km (51 miles) from 72 km, the chairman of the authority managing the Egyptian waterway said on Tuesday. Suez Canal Authority Chairman Osama Rabie told a news conference that it would be too expensive to…

A leading environmental group is warning of a potential major oil leak or explosion on an aging oil tanker moored off of Yemen’s Red Sea coast

Yemen’s prime minister on Tuesday accused the Houthi militia of allowing Iran to use the war-torn country as a base for attacking other states, the official news agency SABA reported. Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed told British Ambassador to Yemen Richard Oppenheim that the Houthis have shunned peace efforts to end the…