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Recent strikes against Yemen's Huthis are unlikely to end the threat they pose to international shipping, with the Iran-backed rebels having already survived years of heavy aerial bombardment by Gulf states.- Continued threat - Jon Alterman, the director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said he thinks the recent strikes will "diminish but not end the Huthi threat to shipping."

WASHINGTON: Recent strikes against Yemen's Houthis are unlikely to end the threat they pose to international shipping, with the Iran-backed rebels having already survived years of heavy aerial bombardment by Gulf states. US and British forces

President Joe Biden took office vowing to negotiate an end to a bloody war in Yemen and to remove US troops from harm's way.He enters his reelection year by launching strikes on the country instead, but his administration hopes calm can return.Experts say the Biden administration and Yemen's Huthi insurgents, as well as the group's backers in Iran, have tacitly entered a delicate and dangerous understanding -- they both feel the need to use force, while presuming the other side does not want to escalate.

The latest strike in Yemen comes a day after dozens of US and UK strikes on the Iran-backed Houthi group's facilities there.

Days after the US killed a suspected militant leader in Baghdad, Iraq's prime minister called for a "quick" timeline for US and coalition forces to leave.