Operation Aspides: How the EU's Red Sea Escort Mission Reached Mid-2025
The EU's Aspides force launched on February 19, 2024, and by July 2025 its warships had downed more than twenty drones and missiles while escorting merchant traffic.
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Houthi Attacks Sank Two Bulk Carriers in the Southern Red Sea in July 2025
The Magic Seas and Eternity C were struck and sunk within seventy-two hours in July 2025, the first fatal attacks on Red Sea merchant shipping in about a year.