The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Laboon approaches the oiler USNS Kanawha (background) for replenishment-at-sea operation in the Red Sea, Dec. 5, 2023. (Photo: Elexia Morelos/US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE/AFP)
A handout picture, released by Bahrain's official news agency on Nov. 19, 2021, shows Bahrain's Minister for Defense Affairs Abdulla bin Hasan Al-Nuaimi receiving the U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in Manama (Photo: AFP)
Ansar Allah, head of the Houthi’s supreme political council Mahdi al-Mashat, left, shakes hands with Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to Yemen Mohammed bin Saeed Al-Jaber, in Sanaa, Yemen. (Photo: Ansar Allah Media Office)
In this photo release by the U.S. Navy, hundreds of AK-47 assault rifles sit on the flight deck of the guided-missile destroyer USS The Sullivans during an inventory process, Jan. 7, 2023. (Photo: U.S. Navy via AP)
In this satellite image provided by Planet Labs PBC, smoke rises over an Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. fuel depot in the Mussafah neighborhood of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. (Photo: Planet Labs PBC via AP)
A picture shows a storage facility of oil giant ADNOC in the Msaffah industrial district in the Emiarti capital Abu Dhabi on January 17, 2022. (Photo: AFP)
