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The Houthis said they would retaliate after U.S. and British forces launched a new wave of strikes targeting sites used by the Iranian-backed militant group in Yemen. The joint attacks “will not go unanswered, and we will meet escalation with escalation,” Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti, a member of the Houthi political bureau, said early Sunday local time.
The strikes on Yemen targeted 13 locations associated with Houthi storage facilities and weaponry, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said. The Houthis have targeted military and commercial vessels in the Red Sea, and have said the attacks won’t cease until Israel’s assault on Gaza is over. Hamas called the strikes “blatant aggression on the sovereignty of a sister Arab state.”
U.S. forces struck a Houthi anti-ship cruise missile in Yemen that was “prepared to launch against ships in the Red Sea” at 4 a.m. local time Sunday, U.S. Central Command said, calling the missile an “imminent threat” to U.S. Navy ships and commercial vessels.
The attacks came after American strikes on more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria in retaliation for the killing of three U.S. troops in Jordan — a response President Biden said will continue “at times and places of our choosing.” Biden, asked by reporters if the airstrikes were working while stepping off Air Force One in Las Vegas on Sunday, shouted back “Yes!” before getting into the presidential limousine.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the Iraqi government should be more helpful in their joint goal of stopping militia groups. Iraqi government officials had protested the weekend wave of U.S. airstrikes.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was set to leave Sunday afternoon for a five-day trip to the Middle East, with planned stops in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, Israel and the West Bank.
At least 27,365 people have been killed and 66,630 injured in the Gaza Strip since the war began, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack.
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The strikes on Yemen targeted 13 locations associated with Houthi storage facilities and weaponry, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said. The Houthis have targeted military and commercial vessels in the Red Sea, and have said the attacks won’t cease until Israel’s assault on Gaza is over. Hamas called the strikes “blatant aggression on the sovereignty of a sister Arab state.”
U.S. forces struck a Houthi anti-ship cruise missile in Yemen that was “prepared to launch against ships in the Red Sea” at 4 a.m. local time Sunday, U.S. Central Command said, calling the missile an “imminent threat” to U.S. Navy ships and commercial vessels.
The attacks came after American strikes on more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria in retaliation for the killing of three U.S. troops in Jordan — a response President Biden said will continue “at times and places of our choosing.” Biden, asked by reporters if the airstrikes were working while stepping off Air Force One in Las Vegas on Sunday, shouted back “Yes!” before getting into the presidential limousine.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the Iraqi government should be more helpful in their joint goal of stopping militia groups. Iraqi government officials had protested the weekend wave of U.S. airstrikes.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was set to leave Sunday afternoon for a five-day trip to the Middle East, with planned stops in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, Israel and the West Bank.
At least 27,365 people have been killed and 66,630 injured in the Gaza Strip since the war began, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack.
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