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2024-01-23 Arabia
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US, Britain say underground storage site targeted in latest strikes on Yemen’s Houthis
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[IsraelTimes] The United States and Britannia carried out an additional round of strikes against 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...
’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets
 ...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 America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They 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...
s over their targeting of Red Sea shipping, the Pentagon says, targeting an underground storage site, missiles and other Houthi military capabilities.
The Pentagon details the eight new strikes in a joint statement with Britannia, as well as from Australia, Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands, which supported the latest military action, the statement says.
"These precision strikes are intended to disrupt and degrade the capabilities that the Houthis use to threaten global trade and the lives of innocent mariners," the statement says.
A separate statement from the UK Ministry of Defence says British aircraft used precision-guided bombs to strike multiple targets near the Sanaa airfield.
More from RIA Novosti. Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
US and UK strike eight Houthi targets in Yemen
US and British forces attacked eight Yemeni Houthi targets, the countries said in a joint statement.
"The US and UK militaries, on the orders of their governments and with the support of Australia, Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands, carried out additional proportionate and necessary strikes against eight Houthi targets in Yemen," the statement said.
The purpose of the strikes was said to be to reduce the Houthis' ability to attack ships. In particular, the “underground storage facility” was hit, as well as the places where the Houthi missile facilities are located.
Britain said Royal Air Force aircraft used Paveway IV precision guided bombs to hit multiple targets at two military installations in the vicinity of an airfield in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, which were used for "attacks in the Red Sea."
The United States is still assessing the damage to the Houthis from the strikes, but so far considers them to be successful, a senior Pentagon official said.
STRIKES IN YEMEN
In mid-November, the Houthis, in a show of support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, began attacking Israeli- linked ships in the Red Sea, causing shipping traffic through Suez to plummet.
The United States, in turn, announced the launch of an operation to protect shipping together with ten other countries. Ansar Allah warned that they reserve the right to attack ships of members of this coalition. There have been several clashes at sea between the Houthis and the US military.
On January 12, the United States and Great Britain carried out airstrikes against Houthi targets in four provinces of Yemen. American President Joe Biden called the operation a response to a threat to freedom of navigation, without ruling out the continuation of military action.
The Houthis say they were able to sink a US warship in the Red Sea as a result of a retaliatory missile attack.
| I don’t recall any sunk American ships, but perhaps I was distracted. |
| Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail has photos and video of loaded airplanes on the aircraft carrier, and maps, adding: |
U.S. Central Command said the eight targets 'included missile systems and launchers, air defense systems, radars, and deeply buried weapons storage facilities.' The sites are believed to be in the capital, Sanaa; at a nearby military base, al-Dailami; near the highland city of Taizz; and in Bayda province.
The strikes were launched from air, surface and subsurface platforms as part of 'Operation Poseidon Archer'. They included Tomahawk land attack missiles as well as manned aircraft from the U.S.S. Eisenhower, the official told CBS.
In the past, the United States and British forces have mainly hit Houthi missiles and radar sites. The January 11 attacks targeted just under 30 locations with 150 different weapons, CBS reported. A U.S. official previously told CBS News that the initial strikes, on January 11, destroyed enough of the Houthis' air defense capabilities to allow surveillance of their territory, and make it possible to see what the Houthis are preparing.
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