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Andy Burnham has agreed to give military support to Saudi Arabia in its struggle against Houthi rebels in Yemen.

The Houthis have been accused of launching a drone towards the holy city of Mecca, while the militant group claims to have shot down a Saudi fighter jet amid escalating conflict across the region.

Satellite imagery showed smoke in the area of a crucial oil pipeline in Saudi Arabia, raising fears of another heavy attack by the Houthis on energy infrastructure.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) called President Trump twice Thursday, urging him to launch strikes against the Houthis as the Iran-backed group closed in on a vital Red Sea chokepoint

The Houthis have seized the strategically important port of Mocha on Yemen’s western coast and are close to controlling the country’s entire Red Sea shoreline, Middle Eastern media report.

Sixteen people have been killed with a further 28 injured in a bus crash in Egypt, the country’s health ministry has confirmed.

Attacks by the Iran-aligned Houthis on a military camp in Yemen and in Saudi Arabia have sparked concerns that the Middle East crisis will continue to spiral.

Iran is betting it can outlast Washington by turning the Middle East’s trade routes, shipping lanes and energy infrastructure into pressure points that steadily raise the cost of confrontation, according to Gulf officials and analysts.

Yemeni sources say Saudis concentrating forces for what could be attack in central Yemen

The Bank of England is expected to keep interest rates unchanged again next week, despite fresh uncertainty in the Middle East.

Iran flew Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commanders, military advisers and missile- and drone-related equipment into Yemen this month, according to four sources, in a move that suggests Tehran is seeking to strengthen the ability of its Houthi allies to threaten Red Sea shipping.

Ethiopian authorities have arrested 17 key operatives behind a brutal human trafficking syndicate that trapped tens of thousands of migrants in Yemen, systematically filming their torture to extort millions from terrified families.

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis will impose a maritime blockade on Saudi Arabia, they said on Monday, further throttling a global energy market already greatly restricted by Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Donald Trump’s America First policy, his dismantling of USAID, and his war against Iran have led to the revival of the long-forgotten phenomenon of Somali piracy.

The Houthis have threatened to obstruct a second major oil shipping route, as a new map reveals the vulnerability of the 18-mile-wide Bab al-Mandeb Strait to a blockade.

British forces launched a series of airstrikes on a Houthi military target in Yemen on Tuesday evening, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.

A US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet has been lost at sea after it fell overboard from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier while it was being towed on board, the Navy said in a statement on Monday.

HMS Dauntless has finished an intense live-fire exercise off the Welsh coast, successfully intercepting waves of drones in a final trial before becoming part of the UK’s upcoming Carrier Strike Group (CSG) deployment to the Indo-Pacific.

This is the horrifying moment the Sindbad submarine disaster unfolds as the vessel sinks beneath the waves with its hatches still open.

Donald Trump looked like he’d come fresh from the golf course to watch airstrikes carried out on Houthi rebels in Yemen.

A flight to Manchester had to divert and land in Athens when the pilot reportedly collapsed.

The attack happened in deep waters outside the designated swimming area of Marsa Alam, say authorities

Two US Navy pilots were shot down on Sunday over the Red Sea in an apparent "friendly fire" incident, the US military said.