Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, and the U.S. response
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Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The Houthi attacks. On Thursday, the United States and Britain — with support from Canada, the Netherlands, and Bahrain — bombed more than a dozen Houthi rebel sites across Yemen in retaliation for a series of attacks on commercial ships crossing the Red Sea. On Saturday morning, the U.S. hit an additional site in Yemen it said was putting ships at risk. The Iran-backed Houthis had disregarded weeks of warnings and continued to attack merchant ships passing through the Red Sea, leading to the strikes.
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