Egypt Downplays Damietta Drone Strike as Fears Grow for Suez Canal Lifeline
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Egypt downplays Damietta drone strike as fears grow for Suez Canal lifeline
Cairo had focused on the threat of Houthi disruption at Bab al-Mandab, but a drone that set two gas vessels ablaze at a northern Egyptian port exposed a different vulnerability; no group has claimed responsibility
Drone Strike in Egypt Sparks Security Concerns About Suez Oil Exports - Energy News, Top Headlines, Commentaries, Features & Events
(Reuters) – A drone strike that damaged two gas tankers in Egyptian waters has renewed energy security concerns about the nearby Suez Canal and a related pipeline, a vital export route for Saudi Arabian oil since the beginning of the Iran war. Even as Iran and its Houthi allies have fired on tankers transiting the ...
Yemen's Houthi rebels said on Thursday they were not behind a drone attack on a ship in the Egyptian port of Damietta on Wednesday. The gas processing and storage ship is owned and operated by the United States, according to AFP. According to the Saba news agency, a representative of the rebel movement's foreign affairs office said that "speculation that Yemen targeted a ship in the port of Damietta in the Arab Republic of Egypt is baseless." Th…
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