The US and the UK launched multiple airstrikes in Yemen, the first time the two countries launched a joint heavy bombing on the country in over three months.
Yemeni media reported that five airstrikes hit Yemen’s Red Sea province of Hodeida and that a radio building was hit in one of the strikes, and at least 16 people were killed and 35 wounded. A communications network in the neighboring Taiz province was also reported to be targeted.
US Central Command said that its forces “alongside UK Armed Forces conducted strikes against 13 Houthi targets” in Houthi-controlled Yemen, which is where most Yemenis live. CENTCOM said that it also conducted unilateral strikes that it claimed destroyed eight Houthi drones in Yemen and over the Red Sea.
The British Defense Ministry said that its forces “participated in a joint operation with US forces against Houthi military facilities to degrade their ability to persist with their attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.”
The bombing marks the fifth time that the US and the UK launched joint airstrikes on Yemen since January. The US has also launched hundreds of unilateral strikes, which have done nothing to deter Houthi attacks on shipping that began in response to Israel’s onslaught in Gaza.
The latest round of US-UK airstrikes came after the Houthis struck a ship in the Red Sea and said they downed a US MQ-9 Reaper drone for the sixth time since November 2023. The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, have made clear they will not stop their attacks until there is a ceasefire in Gaza and a lifting of the Israeli siege.
The US backed a brutal Saudi/UAE war against the Houthis from 2015-2022 that involved heavy airstrikes and a blockade, and the Houthis only became more of a capable fighting force during that time.
The war killed at least 377,000 people, with more than half dying of starvation and disease caused by the siege. A ceasefire between the Houthis and Saudis has held relatively well since April 2022, but new US sanctions are now blocking the implementation of a lasting peace deal.
Is it 6 or 9 MQ-9 drones shot down so far?
Next generation Chinese fighter jets claim superior tech.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202405/1313356.shtml
And this article has what to do with the Houthis?
The US military once again displays its impotence. They can't even defeat Ansarallah and they want to go against China and Russia?
Q. Can a US President go to war without congressional approval?
A. The Constitution divides war powers between Congress and the president. Only Congress can declare war and appropriate military funding, yet the President is commander in chief of the armed forces.
The president is commander in chief of the armed forces when those forces are “called into the service of the United States.”
When and how does that happen?
Study the war powers act.
The war powers act is unconstitutional trash and should be treated as such.
Just because you don't like a law does not mean it is unconstitutional. Additionally, just because you don't like a law, that does not justified treating it as trash. If it is unconstitutional, the USA has courts to decide that. I far as I know it has survived the courts so far.
You’re correct. The War Powers Resolution isn’t unconstitutional because I don’t like it. It’s unconstitutional because it has the effect of amending the Constitution without the required approval of 2/3 of both houses of Congress and 3/4 of the state legislatures.
Six months of degradation of Houthis… They must be out of missiles and drones by now…!
Not International… Only Israeli bound ships…!
" Only Israeli bound ships" Not true. They have fired on ships which are not bound for Israel or own by Israel. Take 5 minutes and look up the ships they have attacked.
If they have…! It's a war, what do you expect…? Pentagon does it all the time and call it "collateral damage"…!
So your claim that Houthis only attack Israel bound ships is invalid.
That was the case, until the US and UK started bombing. After the seventh or eighth set of attacks they expanded that to US and UK shipping. A ship bound for Iran was hit, but there seems to be some doubt where the missile originated from. The US of course claims it was an Asar Allah missile, Yemen says that it wasn't.
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