JON GAMBRELL

JON GAMBRELL

Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Jon Gambrell is the news director for the Gulf and Iran for the Associated Press.

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Foreign

Houthis’ Latest Assaults on Shipping Underscore Challenges to America in Battle of the Red Sea

A month of American-led airstrikes fail to prevent Yemen’s Iran-backed rebels from launching significant attacks, downing an American Reaper worth tens of millions of dollars.

AP/Osamah Abdulrahman
Foreign

Two American-Flagged Ships With Cargo for Defense Department Come Under Attack by Yemen’s Houthi Rebels

‘While en route, both ships reported seeing explosions close by and the U.S. Navy accompaniment also intercepted multiple projectiles,’ Maersk says.

AP Photo
Foreign

Houthi Rebels, Escalating the Battle of the Red Sea, Launch a Cruise Missile at United States Ship Laboon

The attempt on Yank destroyer, foiled by an American warplane, is the first since the allied air strikes began against Houthi redoubts.

U.S. Navy via Wikimedia Commons
Foreign

Iran Says at Least 103 Killed, 141 Wounded in Blasts at Ceremony Honoring Slain General

No group immediately claimed responsibility for what Iranian state press called a “terroristic” attack shortly after the blasts in Kerman, about 510 miles southeast of Tehran.

AP/Mahdi Karbakhsh Ravari
Foreign

Houthis, in an Escalation of Their Campaign Against Red Sea Shipping Beyond Israeli Targets, Strike a Norwegian-Flagged Tanker 

Attack imperils cargo and energy shipments coming through the Suez Canal and widens the impact of the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.

Patrick Baehl de Lescure/Getty Images
Foreign

State Department Denies Reaching Prisoner Swap Agreement With Tehran

The State Department called the Iranian claims a ‘cruel lie that only adds to the suffering of their families.’

AP
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