2024-01-14 03:45:49
On Saturday, the Houthi rebels in Yemen conducted a military maneuver in Saada Governorate, near the Saudi border, according to media affiliated with the Iranian-backed Yemeni group.
Agency Quotes”Bloomberg“The American, on the Houthis’ Al-Masirah channel, said that the military training “included live fire with tanks and artillery, and the use of drones, and other weapons once morest targets bearing the Israeli flag.”
These maneuvers come following strikes carried out by the United States and the United Kingdom once morest dozens of Houthi military targets in Yemen, in response to attacks launched by the rebels on commercial ships in the Red Sea.
The US Central Command, Centcom, said through its account on the platform:XOn Saturday, US forces launched “an air strike on a radar site belonging to the Houthis in Yemen.”
It announced that the strike was carried out by the USS Carney ship using Tomahawk missiles, noting that this strike was a follow-up to “a specific military target linked to the strikes that were launched on Friday.”
Centcom stated that these strikes aim to “weaken the Houthis’ ability to attack ships, including commercial ships.”
Western countries, led by the United States and Britain, deployed battleships in the Red Sea. Washington formed an international maritime coalition to protect navigation in the strategic region through which 12 percent of global trade passes.
It is noteworthy that the pro-Iranian Houthi group said that its attacks on shipping ships in the Red Sea came within the framework of its support for the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, which attacked Israel on October 7, and has been waging a war once morest it since then.
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