U.S. military strikes Houthi targets U.S. military strikes Houthi targets in Yemen 01:57 The United States military said Tuesday its forces had “conducted multiple precision strikes” that hit Houthi targets in Yemen’s capital. The targets had been used by the Iran-backed rebels used to attack American warships and commercial vessels, U.S. Central Command said in … Read more
A U.S. Navy crew was shot down over the Red Sea in an apparent “friendly fire” incident, the U.S. military said Sunday. The two-person crew — a pilot and a weapons officer — were recovered alive, with one suffering minor injuries in the incident. The incident came as the U.S. military conducted airstrikes targeting Yemen’s … Read more
Hodeida, Yemen — Firefighting teams on Monday were struggling to contain a massive blaze at Yemen’s Hodeida port, days after a deadly Israeli strike damaged oil storage facilities and endangered aid ships in the harbor, which is in the massive portion of the country controlled by the Iran-backed Houthi rebel movement. Heavy flames and black … Read more
U.S. and U.K. military forces late Saturday night launched joint airstrikes on Iranian-backed Houthi targets in Yemen, officials announced. The airstrikes come one day after the U.S. launched retaliatory airstrikes on more than 85 targets of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its affiliated militias in Syria and Iraq in response to last weekend’s drone … Read more
Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels launched a missile Friday at a U.S. warship patrolling the Gulf of Aden, forcing it to shoot down the projectile, and also struck a British vessel as their aggressive attacks on maritime traffic continue. The attack on the destroyer USS Carney marked a further escalation in the biggest confrontation at sea … Read more
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For the third time this week, Yemen-based Houthi rebels Thursday launched missiles at a U.S.-owned merchant vessel, the Pentagon said, the latest in a slew of such attacks from the Iranian-backed militant group on commercial vessels in and around the Red Sea. At about 9 p.m. local time Thursday, Houthi rebels launched two anti-ship ballistic … Read more
1/17: Prime Time with John Dickerson – CBS News Watch CBS News John Dickerson reports on an ice storm in the Northwest, the Supreme Court appearing critical of a key doctrine known as “Chevron deference,” and what happens now that the U.S. has designated the Houthis as a terrorist organization. Be the first to know … Read more
The U.S. and U.K. carried out strikes on targets in Yemen to retaliate for Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, President Biden announced in a statement Thursday night. The strikes were conducted with assistance from Australia, Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands. “These strikes are in direct response to unprecedented Houthi attacks against international maritime vessels … Read more
A U.S. destroyer patrolling in the Red Sea Saturday shot down two ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen while it was responding to a report that a commercial vessel was itself struck by a missile, U.S. authorities said. According to U.S. Central Command, the container ship Maersk Hangzhou — which is Danish-owned but … Read more
