The United States military has bombed a series of targets in areas of Yemen controlled by the Iran-aligned Houthi group, the US defence chief has said.
US Air Force B-2 stealth bombers conducted “precision strikes” against five underground weapons storage locations, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday.
The Houthis’ Al Masirah TV satellite news channel reported air strikes around Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, which the group has held since 2014, and around its stronghold of Saada. It provided no immediate information on damage or casualties.
The latest bombing raids come a day after the United Nations special envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, warned that the country was at risk of being dragged further into the military escalation in the Middle East.
Remind me why we messed with their trade again? What were they doing in China?
The same thing US allies are now doing in Gaza. Genocide and depravity. This is exactly my point.
I’m not excusing the Japanese, in that particular war the US was on the right side except for the war crimes they committed. I’m just saying that history seems to rhyme in a quite odd way.