An Iranian resident in Hong Kong has described the past few days as a “horror” and a “nightmare”, as the latest escalation in the Middle East caused him to lose contact with loved ones due to failed internet connections and fear for their ability to get to safety. The Immigration Department said that as of…
What led to 2 U.S. fighter jets going overboard in the Red Sea – CBS News Watch CBS News For the second time in just over a week, an F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet assigned to the USS Harry S. Truman has been lost in the Red Sea. Charlie D’Agata reports. Be the first to…
TEHRAN – Britain pounds Yemen, marking the first joint attack with the U.S. under the Trump administration. In response, the government in Sanaa warned that the “British enemy must reckon with the consequences of its entanglement,” condemning the UK’s involvement in the U.S.-led campaign against Yemen. This warning follows Britain’s announcement of a joint airstrike…
Britain’s military said it had carried out a joint operation with U.S. forces against the Houthi militia in Yemen for the first time since President Trump re-entered the White House and stepped up attacks on the Iran-backed group. There was no immediate comment from the American military about the operation, which the British Defense Ministry…
The USS Harry S. Truman lost an F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet that was being towed on Monday in the Red Sea, the Navy said. The fighter jet slipped off the hangar deck of the aircraft carrier, deployed to the Middle East, as sailors were towing the aircraft into place in the hangar bay, the…
Steep port fees imposed on Chinese vessels docking in the US are not expected to immediately affect Hong Kong’s shipping sector as the industry is good at working around disruptions and may benefit from the move, veteran shippers have said. Shipping industry players gathered on Tuesday to address how Hong Kong’s maritime community will face…
U.S. commanders planning for a possible conflict with China are increasingly concerned that the Pentagon will soon need to move long-range precision weapons from stockpiles in the Asia-Pacific region to the Middle East, congressional officials say. That is because of the large amount of munitions that the United States is using in a bombing campaign…
A submarine carrying Russian tourists sank off Egypt’s Red Sea coast on Thursday, leaving at least four people dead, according to the Russian Embassy in Egypt and local news reports. The vessel was believed to be carrying about 45 people on a tour in the waters off the coast near Hurghada, a popular resort nearly…
The bombshell publication of a group chat involving Trump administration officials discussing U.S. battle plans revealed in unusually stark fashion what the Trump administration hopes to achieve with airstrikes this month against the Houthi militia in Yemen. The attacks, some of the chat’s participants said, were meant to deter the Houthis from attacking commercial ships…
The U.S. military has conducted strikes against Houthi militia targets in Yemen daily since March 15, but the Pentagon has not provided details about the attacks since March 17, when it said more than 30 Houthi targets had been hit on the first day. The military’s Central Command posts images on social media of jets…