1LoverofGod
Well-known
AU.S.-led coalition launched more than a dozen strikes on Houthi rebel targets in Yemen late Thursday, officials said, two days after the Yemeni rebel force defied an ultimatum to halt its attacks on ships transiting the Red Sea with a barrage of missiles and drones.
The strikes, which were conducted by U.S. and British forces and supported by Australia, Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands, were intended to reduce the Houthis’ campaign, which the Iran-backed rebel group said it launched in response to Israel’s war on the Hamas militant group in Gaza.
The coalition strikes early Friday morning local time were aimed at radar systems and drone and missile sites, a U.S. defense official said. A U.S. submarine, several destroyers and fighter jets, and part of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier strike group took part, a U.S. defense official said.
Houthi officials reported explosions in the capital, San’a, and the provinces of Hodeida, Saada, and Dhamar and elsewhere, which they blamed on “American-Zionist-British aggression against Yemen.” San’a hosts the Houthis’ missile inventories, while attacks on vessels were launched from the port of Hodeida, according to shipping executives.
More
The strikes, which were conducted by U.S. and British forces and supported by Australia, Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands, were intended to reduce the Houthis’ campaign, which the Iran-backed rebel group said it launched in response to Israel’s war on the Hamas militant group in Gaza.
The coalition strikes early Friday morning local time were aimed at radar systems and drone and missile sites, a U.S. defense official said. A U.S. submarine, several destroyers and fighter jets, and part of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier strike group took part, a U.S. defense official said.
Houthi officials reported explosions in the capital, San’a, and the provinces of Hodeida, Saada, and Dhamar and elsewhere, which they blamed on “American-Zionist-British aggression against Yemen.” San’a hosts the Houthis’ missile inventories, while attacks on vessels were launched from the port of Hodeida, according to shipping executives.
More
