The U.S. and U.K. missile launch on Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen was the culmination of weeks of warnings for the group to cease their attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea.
The United States and 12 allies have given what amounts to a final warning to Houthi rebels, telling the militants to cease their attacks on vessels in the Red Sea or face potential targeted military action.
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Since then, it has furthered its area of influence and it now controls much of Yemen's western seaboard down to the Bab al Mandeb Strait - the 16-mile stretch of water that marks the entrance to the Red Sea. Read more: Houthis stronger after years of war and military a...
Intelligence analysis had successfully identified several very long-range drones, used by the Houthis for both reconnaissance and attack missions, at one site several miles north east of Sanaa, the Ministry of Defence said. Precision-guided bombs were used against the drones and their launcher...
The weapons the Houthis launched were either shot down by the Navy ships or failed, according to the Pentagon. None of the U.S. ships were hit, and no U.S. personnel were injured, but the attack further demonstrated that months of U.S. airstrikes have not dissuaded Houthis from ...
On 16th June, Yemen’s Houthis claimed responsibility for attacking two civilian vessels and an American destroyer in the Red Sea.
The allied aim is to neutralise the threat posed by the Houthi rebel forces against international shipping in the Red Sea, through which a huge amount of oil and goods pass. But the Iranian-trained Houthis, once a rag tag rebel army, are now a fighting f
The US military said on Friday that Yemen's Houthis launched two anti-ship ballistic missiles and one drone over the Gulf of Aden and four drones over the Red Sea. Three of the drones fired over the Red Sea were destroyed by US forces and one crashed into the sea, the US military's...
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