...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is
God is Great, Death to Americaâ„¢, Death to Israel, a curse on the JewsThey like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
anti-ship missile that was aimed into the Gulf of Aden and prepared to launch, the US military said, with the latest round of strikes coming hours after the United States struck three other Houthi anti-ship missiles.
"U.S. forces determined the missile presented a threat to merchant vessels and US Navy ships in the region, and subsequently struck and destroyed the missile in self-defense," the Centcom said in a statement on X.
The incident, the latest amid growing tensions in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden that have disrupted global trade and raised fears of supply bottlenecks, took place around 0400 Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
time (0100 GMT), the statement added.
In 6th set of Yemen strikes, US hits Houthi anti-ship missile launchers ready to fire
[IsraelTimes] US official says operation carried out by F/A-18 aircraft off the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier; Yemeni media says al-Jabaana neighbourhood in the west of Hodieda city targeted.
According to Houthi Sources, a Senior Houthi Official alongside 2 Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran were Killed earlier today in a U.S. Airstrike against a Missile Launch Site in the Al-Bayda Governorate of Western Yemen.
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