Yemen's Houthis said on Tuesday they would resume attacks on Israeli ships passing through the Red and Arabian seas, the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the Gulf of Aden, ending a period of relative calm ...

The hijacking happened in the Gulf of Aden, a waterway between Somalia and Yemen that has been the site of numerous pirate attacks on merchant vessels.

An agreement between China, India and Japan to coordinate over combating piracy in the Gulf of Aden is an encouraging sign of military cooperation. But it’s no panacea.