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Yemen was the target of U.S. and British airstrikes early Friday, after weeks of attacks by Houthi rebels on Red Sea shipping lanes in retaliation for...

US, British militaries launch massive retaliatory strike against Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen

The Iran-backed militia group Houthis warned that the US, UK and allies will have to pay a heavy price for the attack on Yemen on Thursday night. The rebel group called the attack a blatant aggression that will have far-reaching consequences.

It remained unclear how extensive the damage from the U.S. strikes were, though the Houthis said at least five sites, including airfields, had been attacked.

The United States and its allies have begun a series of military strikes against the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, sending fighter jets to attack several targets. The White House issued a statement from US President Joe Biden confirming the strikes. "Today, at my direction, US military forces—together with the United Kingdom and with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, and the Netherlands—successfully conducted strikes against a number of targets in Yemen used by...

The bombardment is an illegal act of war targeting an oppressed nation that had already been ravaged by a years-long onslaught by Saudi Arabia, backed by the US and its allies.

U.S.-led airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebels in response to their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea have pulled the world’s focus back on the yearslong war raging in the Arab world’s poorest nation

Furious Houthi forces have vowed to retaliate to a scale beyond the imagination of the West after heavy UK and US air strikes pounded targets across rebel-held areas of Yemen last night.

US and British forces struck rebel-held Yemen early on Friday after weeks of disruptive attacks on Red Sea shipping by the Iran-backed Huthis who say they act in solidarity with Gaza. The pre-dawn...

Tensions have been rising after Iranian-backed Houthi rebels began striking at ships passing through the Red Sea in recent weeks.