"UN Chief Warns of Escalating Red Sea Tensions Despite US and UK Strikes on Houthis"

Despite a series of U.S. military strikes targeting Houthi positions in Yemen, the Iranian-backed group launched another attack on a merchant ship in the Red Sea just hours after the strikes. The U.S. Central Command stated that the strikes had disrupted and degraded the Houthi's military capabilities, but the continued attacks indicate ongoing instability in the region, extending beyond Israel's conflict with Hamas to include Iranian-backed militia attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria.