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The US has issued a “worldwide caution” to American citizens amid the heightened tensions in the Middle East and the “potential for unforeseen escalation”.
The alert for US citizens abroad from the state department’s TravelGov, posted on social media, says:
U.S. diplomatic facilities, including outside the Middle East, have been targeted. Iran and groups supportive of Iran may target other U.S. interests overseas or at locations associated with the United States and Americans throughout the world.
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The Houthis' move in the Red Sea - explainer
The Houthis’ announcement will further throttle a global energy market already greatly restricted by Iran’s closure of the strait of Hormuz. Reuters has taken a look at what this move in the Red Sea means for the Iran war and the global energy crisis. Here is a summary of it.
How big is the risk?
First, it is not clear how the Houthis would carry out a maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia, or whether it would include a return to attacks on shipping.
Yemen sits on the Bab el-Mandeb strait – the southern gateway to the Red Sea – and closing that would open up a new front in the energy crisis and Iran’s overarching conflict with the US.
With Hormuz already disrupted, the Red Sea has become a critical alternative outlet for Gulf oil and other products. A serious disruption would mean both of the Middle East’s major oil export routes are shut simultaneously.
Saudi Arabia has diverted more than 70% of its normal daily crude exports to the Red Sea port of Yanbu since the crisis in the strait. Ships from Yanbu bound for Europe go north through the Suez Canal. Those heading to Asia go south through Bab el-Mandeb.
Shipments from Yanbu averaged 4 million barrels per day (bpd) in recent weeks according to data from Kpler and Signal Ocean, up from around 973,000 bpd a year earlier.
Total petroleum volumes transiting Bab el-Mandeb amounted to 7.4 million bpd in June, or about 7% of global oil output, according to Kpler data, up from 4.2 million bpd last year.
That has provided a lifeline for the energy market, helping to keep down global oil prices. Saudi Arabia is considering an expansion of its crude oil pipeline to the Red Sea coast, Reuters reported last week.
What have the Houthis done so far during this war?
While Hezbollah and the Iraqi groups joined the war early with rocket and drone fire, the Houthis had been comparatively quiet.
The group’s leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi said on 5 March: “Our fingers are on the trigger at any moment should developments warrant it.”
Iranian commanders have repeatedly warned that the Houthis might join the war. The Houthis launched a few missile and drone attacks on Israel in late March and early April.
What happened when the Houthis attacked Red Sea shipping over the Gaza war?
After the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, and Israel’s devastating campaign in Gaza, the Houthis began firing at Israel and on shipping in the Red Sea, saying they were doing so in support of Palestinians.
The attacks severely disrupted global shipping, prompting Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd and other major companies to divert around Africa — a far longer, more expensive route.
Red Sea traffic has not recovered since, with traffic through the Suez Canal down 52% in 2025 versus 2023 levels and at its lowest in at least 50 years, Suez Canal Authority data shows.
A US-led mission to restore free navigation in the Red Sea involved repeated strikes on Houthi targets and a defensive campaign that shot down hundreds of drones and missiles.
But some Houthi attacks continued until the middle of last year, only ending completely with the Gaza ceasefire in October.
Last month the Houthis said they would ban ships linked to Israel from the Red Sea after Israel renewed military attacks on Iran.
However, that threat was never acted on and shipping groups Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd are resuming some Red Sea routes that they had abandoned during the Houthi attacks last year, Maersk said this month.
Nearly 100 US service members have been injured over the past two weeks of escalating strikes on Iran, the Pentagon has said, as Tehran launched a wave of reprisals to the tenth consecutive night of attacks.
Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said the vast majority of those injured only experienced “minor concussions” and 96% had since returned to work.
Parnell was responding to a New York Times report that the Pentagon has withheld information about troop injuries from Iranian strikes. He denied the Pentagon was hiding data about injuries.
Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan all said they had activated defences to repel Iran’s latest attacks, but the scale of US injuries at facilities across the region over the recent week is likely to bring greater scrutiny of the Iranian reprisals.
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Iran says it hit US military targets in Bahrain and Kuwait
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said on Tuesday it struck US military targets including air defence systems in Bahrain and Kuwait, according to state media.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it hit two air defence systems and a radar installation at two different US outposts in Bahrain, as well as missile defence systems and radars and satellite reception systems in Kuwait.
The Guard also warned in the statement carried by state news agency Irna:
With this radar sweep, the enemy should prepare for even more decisive and powerful waves of drone and missile attacks.
The announcement came as the US said it hit Iranian military command centres, air defence systems and missile launch sites in a 10th consecutive night of attacks.
Iran’s army said it targeted “three major US bases in Kuwait” with kamikaze drones, AFP reports.
Targets including administrative buildings and direction-finding antennas at Camp Arifjan, a helicopter parking area at Camp Al Udairi and “the troop accommodation building” at Ahmad Al Jaber Air Base, according to Iranian state TV Irib.
US issues 'worldwide caution' alert for American citizens
The US has issued a “worldwide caution” to American citizens amid the heightened tensions in the Middle East and the “potential for unforeseen escalation”.
The alert for US citizens abroad from the state department’s TravelGov, posted on social media, says:
U.S. diplomatic facilities, including outside the Middle East, have been targeted. Iran and groups supportive of Iran may target other U.S. interests overseas or at locations associated with the United States and Americans throughout the world.
Crew abandon targeted tanker and on lifeboat in strait of Hormuz – report
Iran’s claim on stopping two oil tankers in the strait of Hormuz comes as a British maritime agency says the crew of a tanker that was reportedly struck earlier had abandoned the vessel and were now in a lifeboat.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency gave the update – citing the tanker’s company security officer – in a report posted on X after earlier saying the tanker was reportedly struck by an unknown projectile eight nautical miles north-east of Limah, Oman.
Iran says blasts as it stopped two tankers crossing Hormuz strait
Two oil tankers caught fire after explosions while attempting to transit the southern route of the strait of Hormuz, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has said.
It added in the statement on Tuesday that the strait would remain closed as long as the US military actions in the region continued.
However, the US military said after its 10th consecutive night of strikes on Iran that commercial vessel transits continue through the vital energy route and that US forces would “hold Iran accountable for unwarranted aggression toward civilian mariners”.
The Guard’s statement, carried by state news agency Irna, said:
Two non-compliant oil tankers attempting to pass through the unsafe southern route of the Strait of Hormuz were stopped after explosions caused extensive fires aboard them.
US says latest strikes hit Iran sites including military command centres
The US military says it has completed its latest round of strikes against Iran and asserts that transits through the strait of Hormuz “continue”.
Central Command (Centcom) said in a statement posted on X:
An image from video released by the US military showing American forces launching strikes against Iran. Photograph: US Central Command (Centcom)/AFP/Getty ImagesU.S. forces struck Iranian military command centers, maritime capabilities, missile and drone launch sites, and air defense systems to degrade Iran’s ability to continue attacking commercial vessels flowing through the Strait of Hormuz.
Commercial vessel transits through the vital international maritime corridor continue. Since early May, CENTCOM forces have helped facilitate the transit of approximately 900 commercial vessels and 450 million barrels of crude oil.
Centcom also said:
American forces remain postured and prepared to hold Iran accountable for unwarranted aggression toward civilian mariners seeking to freely and openly transit the strait.
The latest strikes were completed at 9pm ET (1am GMT Tuesday), it said.
The US military has just said it finished its latest round of strikes against Iran.
More on this in a moment.
Oil prices ease after hitting highest level in over a month
Oil prices have softened as markets weigh reports of mediation efforts between the US and Iran against the fresh strikes between the two and threats of a naval blockade of Saudi Arabia by Yemen’s Houthis.
Brent crude futures eased 35 cents, or 0.4%, to $88.87 a barrel by 0052 GMT on Tuesday, while US West Texas Intermediate crude for September delivery was steady at $82.47 a barrel, Reuters is reporting.
Both contracts were trading below their highest levels in more than a month hit in the previous session.
The chief market analyst at KCM Trade, Tim Waterer, said:
The threats of a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia by the Houthis are significant because they raise the risk of disruption to another major oil exporter.
The latest US-Iran hostilities are likely to cast a shadow over a diplomatic gathering this week in south-east Asia – a region that relies heavily on Middle East oil and gas and was severely hit by the global supply and price shocks the war triggered.
The Middle East crisis is expected to feature prominently in the talks of foreign ministers from the 11-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Manila, said a spokesperson for host the Philippines.
“We’re looking at several occasions where they can raise this very, very critical topic,” Dominic Xavier Imperial said, quoted by Reuters.
The import-dependent Philippines declared a national energy emergency in March and has been forced to cast an ever-wider net for fuel, including purchases of oil from Russia, whose foreign minister Sergei Lavrov is to arrive on Tuesday, AFP reports.
US secretary of state Marco Rubio landed in Manila on Tuesday morning as the rekindled war with Iran places traditional American allies under economic strain.
