The US president announced that he had struck Houthi targets in Yemen
The United States and the United Kingdom hit at least 12 targets of the Ansarullah (Houthi) movement in Yemen with the help of warplanes and Tomahawk missiles . In turn, the Houthis reported that they retaliated against enemy ships and military installations. There is no information on casualties or damage yet.
The United States and the United Kingdom The United States and the United Kingdom launched strikes against the targets of the Ansarullah movement (Houthis) in Yemen. This was announced by US President Joe Biden, Anadolu reports .
The White House leader said the strikes were "in direct response to the Houthis ' unprecedented attacks on international naval vessels in the Red Sea."
"Today, under my direction, US forces, together with the United Kingdom, with the support of Australia, Bahrain, Canada and the Netherlands, conducted airstrikes against a number of targets used by Houthi rebels in Yemen, " Biden said.
The American president said that the United States together with the international coalition responded to a number of attacks . The last of them happened on January 9, when the Houthis directly attacked American ships.
According to the US press, the US and Great Britain hit at least 12 Houthi targets with the help of warplanes and Tomahawk missiles.
In turn, the Houthis announced that they attacked American and British warships in the Red Sea.
Ali al-Kahhum, a member of the Ansarullah political bureau, said on the X social network that this attack was a response to the US and British strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.
"Yemen's (US and UK) response was slow. "The Yemeni armed forces are resolutely responding to US-British warships, military facilities and bases in the Red Sea," he wrote.
"Washington and London must pay a heavy price for the attacks," Husayn al-Izzi, the deputy foreign minister of the Houthi government, said on social media.
The Houthi-owned SABA news agency reported that Yemen's capital Sana'a and the cities of Hodeidah, Saada and Zamar were subjected to "US aggression".
According to local sources in Yemen, the US and British warplanes carried out night airstrikes on some points in the Yemeni cities of Sana'a, Hodeidah and Taiz.
The sources did not provide details about the attack. However, footage of the attacks was circulated on social networks.
Also, the Houthis stated that they will continue to attack Israeli ships, despite the fact that the United States and Great Britain carried out strikes on Ansarullah facilities in Yemen.
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