Vessel hit 60 nautical miles off the coast of Yemen in the latest reported attack by movement.

An oil tanker is on fire in the Gulf of Aden, its operator says, after Houthis said they hit it with a missile.

US officials told the BBC’s US partner CBS the tanker was hit by an anti-ship ballistic missile and a naval ship was responding to its distress signal.

There were no injuries reported, the US officials said.

Houthi military spokesman Yaha Sarea said the group used “a number of appropriate naval missiles” and Friday’s strike was “direct”.

  • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Your knowledge of history might only involve things from the European perspective so yes nothing happened before we got there and everything that does happen there we’re at the center of - that’s not actual reality though, read history from their perspective and often we’re just not that important.

    I know history from both perspectives (I’m from the Middle East), and I know that the motivation for organizations like Al-Qaeda is usually the state of places like Palestine, Iraq and Syria. That’s why they target the West; they look at places where the West came in, killed a few hundred thousand people, damaged the place beyond repair and left and want some kind of justice.

    You say the West isn’t that important in Middle Eastern history, but that’s wrong in many ways. Let me tell you as someone who lives here: When it comes to politics, America is basically a synonym for evil over here (could be different in Gulf countries).