The US continued its daily bombing of Yemen on Thursday as the Houthis fired more missiles at Israeli territory.
Yemen’s SABA news agency reported four US airstrikes in the Hodeidah province, which is located on the Red Sea. It’s unclear if there were any casualties in the latest US strikes. A day earlier, US strikes hit a residential area in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, reportedly wounding seven women and two children.
The US airstrikes were reported around the same time the Israeli military said that it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen, the second Houthi attack within a day. The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, restarted missile attacks on Israel after the Israeli military resumed its massive bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip, massacring hundreds of Palestinians.
According to the Israeli news site Ynet, the US has asked Israel not to respond to the Houthis attacks and urged that Israel leave the response to the US military.
While US officials have framed the bombing campaign in Yemen as a way to protect the US military and American shipping, it was really launched in response to the Houthis saying they would reimpose its blockade on Israeli shipping over Israel imposing a total blockade on Gaza, a major violation of the ceasefire deal signed in January.
The Houthis had ceased their attacks once the Gaza ceasefire went into effect on January 19 and had not launched any until after the US restarted its bombing campaign on Saturday, March 15. The first barrage of US airstrikes killed 53 people in Yemen, including women and children.
Since then, the Houthis have claimed several attacks on the US aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman, which US officials have downplayed, saying they were easily intercepted.
President Trump is blaming the Houthis attacks on Iran even though US officials have acknowledged that Ansar Allah acts independently and is unlikely to take orders from Tehran. The Houthis have said they would not “dial down” operations in response to US military pressure or appeals from Iran.
President Trump is threatening the Houthis with “annihilation,” but a year-long US bombing campaign launched by President Biden from January 204 to January 2025 did not stop the Houthis, and a brutal US-backed Saudi-led war on Yemen from 2015 to 2022 also failed to remove the group from power.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said early Friday that the Yemeni attacks on Israel and the blockade on Israeli shipping won’t stop until “the aggression against Gaza stops and the blockade is lifted.” He said the operations “will not be halted no matter how long the American aggression continues.”
Video is timed to show the US fleet's deployment on a map, which seems to be rather to the north, far away from the Yemeni coasts: https://youtu.be/TKjWfv6hsNI?feature=shared&t=482
If three carrier groups have shown up, it means there will be an attack launched at Iran.
The carriers will be hit by hypersonic missiles. American sailors will perish.
Same for military bases that Iran can reach.
I would presume that Hezbollah will finally fire off thousands of missiles at Tel Aviv and critical targets, some of which were exposed in the short video shot from their recon drones.
If Israel threatens to use its nuclear arsenal on Iran, I would think it would motivate Iran to assemble several of their own, to be delivered by hypersonic missiles.
It is well to remember that Iran and Russia have a strategic alliance.
Things are about to get really ugly.
Trump is such a f*cking moron.
KKamenei Did say those who sow the wind will reap the storm.
No, there’s only one in all the region, the rest are all in North America or Japan-Korea area: very far away, weeks to sail:
https://southfront.press/locations-of-us-carrier-strike-groups-march-18-2025/
You should resume your antipsychotic medications. If Hezbollah has not fired its “thousands of missiles at Tel Aviv” while they were getting their ass kicked, I doubt they would be able or willing to do so now. Putin is too smart to risk his future on defending the mullahs
Iran's hypersonic missiles failed to hit fixed targets in Israel. And yet somehow you think that they can hit a moving target?
Hezbollah's large rocket forces has been reduced significantly by the IDF actions in Lebanon. Plus Hezbollah itself has been hurt.
Iran assembling a nuclear bomb would insure a nuclear first strike by Israel.
Russia and Iran alliance means nothing. Russia will not put its cities on the line to protect Iran.
What Iran has going for them is that trump has turned off US allies and his department of defense is led by a weekend anchor man. A limited strike at Iran will not hurt Iran. A sustained war, like Gulf war on 1991, would be needed. Trump is incapable of pulling that off.
Did I miss this point here? Apologies if so.
US bombs cancer centre in Yemen, most victims of bombings women, children
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/03/18/us-bombs-cancer-centre-in-yemen-most-victims-of-bombings-women-children/
Bombing hospitals.
Nancy Pelosi: "The children, the children". Hillary: "We have to protect women and children". Blonde Karoline: "All hell fire will reign down on the terrorists" (women and children)
Obama: something about women ruling will bring peace. Ha, ha.
Where is Codepink – women for peace? I supported them back then. Nothing but smoke and mirrors just like Trump.
They had one tweet about Yemen but are focusing heavily on Gaza. (Just looked them up).
But bombing the Yemen hospital has not been widely reported.
None of the politicos gaf about children. Zero.
A practice that dates to Vietnam.
https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/in-vietnam-war-us-deliberately-bombed-hospitals
US taking care of business for Israel…!
Not really. US asked Israel not to respond to Sadaam Hussein’s scud attacks as well.
Freedom of navigation is important to the US. Houthis need to understand that they will pay a heavy price
Freedom of navigation is important to the US. Houthis need to understand that they will pay a heavy price
Right. And safety for innocent human beings being slaughtered in their tents while sleeping? Not so much. But regrettably, the Israeli's don't have to worry about any price being paid.
Trump would face the famous Biden quote "It's Not Working" sooner or later…!
Nor were they stopped by the 7 years the US, Saudis and Emiratis bombed, starved and murdered them.
The Taliban won over the "mighty" USA because it was an unjust war by us. The Houthis will prevail as well in the end because targeting Yemen for years and years now by us or our allies is just as unjust. The Houthis and Yemen are on the humane side which will have to triumph in the end.
It’s one of the reasons Trump wants to finish the Russo Ukrainian war quickly. Not that he really cares about lives senselessly lost in this proxy war that shouldn’t be fought to begin with. Weapons dumped into the Ukraine are needed for the other conflict and to support Israel. No American president will ever stop funneling weapons to “Americas greatest ally.”