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U.S. and Britain launch strikes against targets in Houthi-controlled Yemen
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/us-britain-strikes-houthi-yemen-rcna133576
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The United States and Britain launched military strikes against targets in Houthi-controlled Yemen, two U.S. officials said Thursday.
“A brutal aggression against our country, for which they will pay absolutely,” Nasr Aldeen Amer, vice president of the Houthi Media Authority, said Thursday.
The strikes came after U.S. Central Command said earlier Thursday that the Iranian-backed Houthis had fired anti-ship ballistic missiles from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen into international shipping lanes in the Gulf of Aden.
The Houthis, from Yemen’s northwestern Saada province, rose to power as Arab Spring protests swept the region in 2011.
Three years later — with support from Tehran — the Houthis took control of the country’s capital, prompting a wider conflict with Iran’s regional rival, Saudi Arabia, and a situation in Yemen that the United Nations described as the “largest humanitarian crisis in the world.”
Although the United States, Britain and several other nations backed the Saudi-led war, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wound down the military operation last year and entered peace talks with the Houthis.
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