The US yesterday carried out new airstrikes on Yemen, the Houthis’ al-Masirah TV said, expanding the biggest US military operation in the Middle East since US President Donald Trump took office in January.
Responding to the Iran-aligned Houthi movement’s threats to international shipping, the US launched a new wave of airstrikes on Saturday. Yesterday, the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah and Al Jawf governorate north of the capital, Sana’a, were targeted, al-Masirah said.
At least 53 people have been killed in the attacks, Anees Alsbahi, a spokesperson for the Houthi-run health ministry, said on Sunday.
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The strikes, which one US official said might continue for weeks, come as the US ramps up sanctions pressure on Iran while trying to bring it to the negotiating table over its nuclear program.
Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi on Sunday said that the militants would target US ships in the Red Sea as long as the US continues attacks on Yemen.
“If they continue their aggression, we will continue the escalation,” he said in a televised speech.
The Houthi movement’s political bureau described the US attacks as a “war crime.” Moscow urged Washington to stop them.
The Houthis’ military spokesman, without providing evidence, said in a televised statement early yesterday that the group had launched a second attack against the US aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea.
US warplanes shot down 11 Houthi drones on Sunday, none of which came close to the Truman, a US official told Reuters.
US forces also tracked a missile that splashed down off the coast of Yemen, the official said.
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