Sana’a, YEMEN—On October 17, an American B-2 bomber carried out 15 strikes on what defense officials described as weapons caches maintained by the Houthis, or Ansarallah, the well-armed, Iran-aligned political movement presently in control of much of northwest Yemen. The bombings followed a campaign of strikes by the Houthis against shipping vessels and targets inside Israel, in retaliation for its war in Gaza.
The U.S. airstrikes reportedly targeted hardened underground facilities housing weapon depots in Yemen’s capital city of Sana’a and Sa’da province. “These actions were taken to degrade the Houthis capability to continue their reckless and unlawful attacks on international commercial shipping and on U.S., coalition, and merchant personnel and vessels in the Red Sea, Bab Al-Mandeb Strait, and the Gulf of Aden, and to degrade their ability to threaten regional partners,” CENTCOM said in a statement. ….more
