The foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia weighed plans for closer cooperation between the two Muslim states and discussed the pressing regional issues, including the Israeli atrocities against Palestine and the developments in the Red Sea.

British military officials have said that this country may send an aircraft carrier to the Red Sea to deal with threats from Yemeni forces.

Yemen's Houthis stepped up attacks on ships crossing the Red Sea on Friday, including one that set fire to an oil tanker owned by the trading company Trafigura.

The spokesman of the Yemeni armed forces announced this Friday morning that Yemeni army forces have targeted another American ship near the Gulf of Aden.

Nippon Yusen, one of Japan's largest shipping companies, announced on Tuesday that it has stopped crossing the Red Sea for all its ships.

The Al Jazeera news channel, citing its sources, announced a new attack on a ship in the Red Sea.

A leading global exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG), QatarEnergy, has stopped sending tankers via the Red Sea amid growing uncertainty about the safety of passage on the vital shipping route, Reuters reported on Monday.

Some countries, organizations and political figures in response to the military aggression of the United States and England and their allies on Yemen, called this attack the cause of tension and the spread of war in the region.

In a joint statement, America and England claimed that with the support of their 8 allied countries, they attacked the logistics and military centers of Yemen with the aim of "reducing tensions and restoring stability to the Red Sea".

Some sources reported that a ship was targeted in the Red Sea early Wednesday.

Yemen has vowed to continue to prevent the passage through the Red Sea of all ships that are owned by Israel or heading to the regime's ports as long as the ongoing genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip goes on.

The media, quoting the British security company "Embry", reported today that a marine incident occurred in the Bab al-Mandeb area of the Red Sea.

Egypt has rejected an Israeli proposal to join a US-led maritime coalition formed under the pretext of protecting shipping in the strategic Red Sea following Yemen’s retaliatory attacks on Israeli-owned and -bound vessels in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli media.

At the same time as tensions increase in the Red Sea, the military authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran have said that the "Alborz destroyer in the form of the 94th naval flotilla" of this country has entered the Red Sea by passing through the Bab al-Mandab strait.

Yemen warned Washington that it bears full responsibility for the consequences of a deadly attack by the US Navy on Yemeni boats in the Red Sea.

The British Maritime Trade Center announced that it had received a report of an incident 50 nautical miles off Hodeidah in western Yemen.

In order to support the Zionist regime during the Gaza war and in order to counter Yemen's attacks in the Red Sea against ships bound for occupied Palestine, America has announced an international maritime coalition. However, this alleged coalition is now falling apart with the withdrawal of European countries.

Some of the world’s largest shipping firms, including Maersk and CMA CGM, will impose extra charges after they re-routed ships in response to attacks on vessels in the Red Sea, as worries about disruption to global trade grow.

Australia did not accept America's request to send a ship to the Red Sea as part of Washington's announced coalition aimed at countering the operations of the Yemeni army.

The Ministry of Defense of Spain rejected the claims of the United States that the country is participating in a multinational naval coalition to patrol the Red Sea, which is said to have been formed to confront the Yemeni forces.