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[Regnum] The United States has confirmed an attack on Houthi missile launchers in Yemen. The corresponding statement was made by the US Central Command (CENTCOM) on January 17.
“Central Command forces targeted 14 Iranian-backed Houthi missiles that were ready to be launched from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen,” the statement said.
It is clarified that the missile launchers posed a direct threat to merchant ships and US Navy ships in the region.
The strikes on Houthi targets were intended to reduce their ability to continue “irresponsible attacks” on international shipping in the Red Sea, CENTCOM added.
As Regnum reported, on January 17, the United States launched the fourth series of strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. The Houthi-owned Al Masirah television channel indicated that the attack was carried out in the provinces of Damar, Saada, Taiz, Hodeida, and Al-Bayda. Houthi targets in the Al-Qarn camp south of the city of Damar were struck at least three times. Explosions were also heard near Hodeidah airport. Information about deaths and destruction is not provided.
On the same day, the command of the US Armed Forces, in a statement, confirmed the shelling of an American merchant ship off the coast of Yemen. The bulk carrier Genco Picardy suffered “some damage”, but the crew were not injured. The ship was attacked by the Houthis in the Gulf of Aden with an attack drone.
More from regnum.ru Houthis say they will continue shelling American ships And the US Navy graciously accepts the challenge to be their targets.
The Yemeni Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) will continue to attack American military and commercial ships, said Khuzam al-Assad, a member of the Politburo of the organization ruling in northern Yemen.
The day before, the United States returned the Ansar Allah movement to the lists of international terrorist organizations.
“We consider our inclusion by the United States in the list of terrorist organizations as political blackmail so that we retreat from our positions,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
According to him, the measures taken by Washington will not stop the movement, which “will continue to support the brothers in Gaza in every possible way.”
As Regnum reported, on January 15, the Houthis confirmed a missile attack on a US ship in the Gulf of Aden. The military representative of the Yemeni movement, Yahya Saria, noted that the hit was direct.
On January 17, the United States launched its fourth series of strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. The Houthi-owned Al Masirah television channel indicated that the attack was carried out in the provinces of Damar, Saada, Taiz, Hodeida, and Al-Bayda.
On January 18, the Ansar Allah movement announced an attack on another American ship in the Gulf of Aden after the US and British Navy began bombing their positions.
The Western coalition does not take into account the deaths of civilians in Yemen and other countries, since it then expects to rewrite history, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. According to her, this is happening because representatives of the West know that “then they will burn any history textbook, erase any tablet, demolish any monument that will testify to the facts, and write a false textbook, erect a false monument and nail a false tablet.”
The unified command of the US Armed Forces confirmed in a statement on the social network X the shelling of an American merchant ship off the coast of Yemen.
The military clarified that the cargo ship Genco Picardy received “some damage”, but the crew was not injured.
The ship was attacked in the Gulf of Aden by an attack drone.
“The strike was launched from Yemeni territory, which is controlled by the Houthis,” American military leaders admitted.
As Regnum reported, the Iran-backed Yemeni movement Ansar Allah (Houthis) announced an attack on another American ship in the Gulf of Aden after the US and British Navy began bombing their positions. Representative of the Yemeni movement Yahya Saria stated this on the Al-Masirah TV channel.
On January 15, the Houthis confirmed a missile attack on a US ship in the Gulf of Aden. The military representative of the Yemeni movement, Yahya Saria, noted that the hit was direct. All American and British ships and units participating in military aggression against Yemen are regarded as “enemy targets,” he emphasized.
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“When you say working, are they stopping the Houthis?” Biden said in an exchange with reporters in Washington, D.C. “No. Are they going to continue? Yes.” The White House redesignated the Houthis as a terrorist organization on Wednesday, after delisting the group in 2021.
Sounds like all of Biden's projects.
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Wag the Dog - Here's a Houthi missile launch site. These strikes are not an effective deter.
#7
^ You are correct. It's not like the DoD didn't have 20 plus years of fighting against this sort of primitive enemy in Afghanistan to figure it out.
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01/19/2024 12:48 Comments ||
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props to intel and the Central Command for locating the launchers and blowing them up
unfortunately the Houthis may have a hundred or so launchers remaining
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#6 - Mossomo - please limit width to <500, thx
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01/19/2024 13:18 Comments ||
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“[I have] no idea what specific doctrine our ships are using in the Red Sea, but you generally train to use multiple missiles per engagement,” Holmes said. “If it’s an SM-2 engagement … the latest variant of the SM-2 seems to run about $2.4 million per round, so you’re talking just under $5 million to bring down what is probably an inexpensive threat. And again, weapons expended in the Red Sea are weapons not available in the primary theater, East Asia, and are not quickly replaced.”
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[Regnum] The American base, which is located near the Erbil air harbor in Iraqi Kurdistan, was attacked using a drone, Al Arabiya TV channel reported on January 18.
At the US Consulate, due to the drone attack, sirens went off, and near the airport, local residents heard the sounds of explosions, the material notes.
As reported by Regnum news agency, a series of explosions occurred in the Iraqi city of Erbil on the night of January 15-16. The explosions occurred near the US consulate and international airport in northern Iraq.
The IRGC later reported that Iran had fired 24 ballistic missiles at targets in Iraq and Syria. Four Khyber Breaker missiles were fired from Khuzestan province at ISIS positions in the Idlib region. The Iranian military launched another nine missiles at positions of “terrorist groups” in other areas of Syria.
In addition, four missiles from the west and seven missiles from the north-west of Iran were fired at the Mossad headquarters in Iraqi Kurdistan, the IRGC added. Iraqi authorities complained about aggression from Iran in an appeal to the UN Security Council.
The Tasnim agency previously reported that after the IRGC strikes on Erbil, the Chairman of the Security Council of the Democratic Party of Iraqi Kurdistan, Suleiman Amin Nader, could have been killed. The material states that Nader was one of the key figures in Iraqi Kurdistan, collaborated with Israeli intelligence, and also participated in organizing the terrorist attack that killed Iranian physicist and researcher at the Iranian Ministry of Defense Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
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Why do we have an airbase in Iraqi Kurdistan?
Close it and get the fuck out of there? Why do we need more war? And this is all run by the same people who got their asses kicked in Afghanistan. How many of them got fired after that? Zero.
#3
Nothing new.
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The IDF says it carried out further strikes on Hezbollah targets in southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... today.
It says sites hit by fighter jets in Aitaroun and Odaisseh included rocket launch positions and other infrastructure belonging to the terror group.
The IDF says it hit several more Hezbollah launch positions in southern Lebanon, including a building used to fire anti-tank missiles at the Menara area yesterday.
Hezbollah fired several missiles and rockets today at Shtula, Malkia, Menara and Mount Dov. The IDF says it struck the launch sites.
#2
OK....that's new. The rest of the world is conspiring against Israel? Wow, that must be why Israel has nuclear weapons and no weapons inspectors. Didn't we invade Iraq for the same reason? Undeclared, uninspected WMD?
Only it turned out that was a lie, while Israel really does have WMD.
#3
To bad Israel hasn't used those nukes on a couple of countries, save the rest of us alot of shit.
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So, the site's user s know that smokey bear photo represents a censored comment? And that this is happening due to administrator abuse? Some petty tyrant is abusing his ability to delete spam to instead delete comments he doesn't like. This is neither civil, well-reasoned nor discourse.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
01/19/2024 9:02 Comments ||
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The rest of the world is conspiring against Israel?
Human beings are tribal, territorial and hierarchical. Before there was a 1947 Israel, they could practice their tribalism upon the Jews who themselves since the diaspora seem to retain a separate identity. When they're useful, they are welcomed. When things turn unsettling, they're targets to displace the anger. Since mid-20th Century, they've been given their own state. Makes it easier for the same people who persecuted them when among them, to now focus on the whole entity of Israel. In America where there is a large enough Jewish population we can witness both domestic and international spewing of these same miscreants' hatred. It's real.
#8
"No cult needs a god, but they all require a devil."
- Eric Hoffer.
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So, the site's user s know that smokey bear photo represents a censored comment? And that this is happening due to administrator abuse? Some petty tyrant is abusing his ability to delete spam to instead delete comments he doesn't like. This is neither civil, well-reasoned nor discourse.
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Some stuck up for you yesterday, so don't be stupid.
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[GEO.TV] The Pakistain Army on Thursday shared operation details of strikes against snuffies in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... saying hideouts used by terrorist organizations, namely Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Liberation Army (BLA) and Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF), were successfully struck in an intelligence-based operation, code named — "Marg Bar Sarmachar".
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement that in the early hours of Thursday, Pakistain carried out effective strikes against hideouts inside Iran used by forces of Evil responsible for recent attacks in Pakistain.
"The precision strikes were carried out using killer drones, rockets, loitering munitions and stand-off weapons. Maximum care was taken to avoid collateral damage," it added.
The military’s media wing said the targeted hideouts were being used by notorious forces of Evil including Dosta alias Chairman, Bajjar alias Soghat, Sahil alias Shafaq, Asghar alias Basham and Wazir alias Wazi, amongst others.
"Pakistain Armed Forces remain in a perpetual state of readiness to ensure safety of Pakistain citizens against acts of terrorism," the statement added.
The ISPR said the armed forces’ resolve to ensure that the illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity of Pakistain are respected and safeguarded against any misadventure, remains unwavering.
"We reaffirm our determination to defeat all enemies of Pakistain with the support of the people of Pakistain," it added.
The military’s media wing also stressed the need for dialogue and cooperation in resolving bilateral issues between the "two neighbouring brotherly countries".
The ISPR's statement comes hours after the Foreign Office confirmed that Pakistain targeted terrorist hideouts inside the Iranian border after Iran violated the country’s illusory sovereignty and launched a strike in Balochistan that left two children dead and injured three girls.
"This morning Pakistain undertook a series of highly coordinated and specifically targeted precision military strikes against terrorist hideouts in Siestan-o-Balochistan province of Iran," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
The statement said a number of bad boyz were potted during the intelligence-based operation — codenamed "Marg Bar Sarmachar".
The development came after Tehran late Tuesday claimed it launched "missile and drone" targeting the Jaish al-Adl group's headquarters in Balochistan's "Green Mountain" area.
Pakistain denounced the strike near the nations' shared border.
"Last night's unprovoked and blatant breach of Pakistain's illusory sovereignty by Iran is a violation of international law and the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... ," FO Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said in a statement on Wednesday.
[GEO.TV] An Iranian provincial security official quoted by the state news agency IRNA as saying that seven people “who did not have Iranian nationality" were killed during Pakistan’s missile attack on the southeastern Iranian city early on Thursday.
The attack which occurred at 04:05 hours local time (0335 GMT) targeted an Iranian border village, Ali Reza Marhamati, the deputy governor general of Sistan-Baluchestan province in southeast Iran told IRNA.
The security official found this after several explosions were heard in the vicinity of Sravan, he added.
Those who were killed included three women and four children, according to the Iranian official.
He went on to say that another explosion occurred near Saravan, fortunately it caused no casualties.
Saravan is located 347km southeast of Zahedan, the capital city of Sistan-Baluchestan, which borders Pakistan.
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[Regnum] As a result of a Jordanian airstrike in the province of Es-Suwayda in southern Syria, 11 people were killed, a local source told RIA Novosti on January 18.
“Eleven people, including children and women, were killed in Jordanian air strikes in Suwayda province,” he said.
According to him, the attack occurred on the night of January 17-18.
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...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
