The British military joined the US in airstrikes that hit Yemen on Tuesday night, marking the first time the UK helped the US bomb the country under the Trump administration.
The UK participated in President Biden’s Yemen bombing campaign from January 2024 to January 2025, which failed to deter the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, who stopped their attacks once a ceasefire went into effect in Gaza on January 19.
The British Defense Ministry claimed that the overnight strikes targeted “a cluster of buildings, used by the Houthis to manufacture drones of the type used to attack ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, located some 15 miles south of Sanaa.”
The ministry offered no details about potential casualties. “The strike was conducted after dark, when the likelihood of any civilians being in the area was reduced yet further,” it said.
Yemen’s SABA news agency reported that “US-British aggression” targeted Sanaa as well as the provinces of Saada and Al Jawf. The SABA report said that a “number of civilian homes were damaged” by the strikes in a neighborhood of Sanaa.
President Trump’s bombing campaign has taken a huge toll on civilians, and the US military has refused to share any details about the over 1,000 strikes it has said it launched since March 15. On Monday, a US bombing hit an African migrant detention facility in Saada, killing 68.
According to the Yemen Data Project, US airstrikes on Yemen killed at least 158 civilians and wounded 342 from March 15 to April 22. If all of the casualties in the bombing of the migrant facility were migrants, which appears to be the case, that would bring the total number of civilians killed by the US to at least 226.
Ansar Allah leaders have repeatedly vowed they will only stop attacks on Israel and end their blockade on Israeli shipping if a ceasefire is reached in Gaza. They have offered to stop attacking US warships if the US stops bombing Yemen, but the Trump administration has shown no interest in the offer.
I wish Jeremy Corbin would be the UK's PM. He is not a bloodthirsty Israel 1st warmonger like Starmer and Trump.
The UK just joined the USA's War In Yemen that the Saudis started. I wish there would be more media coverage of the war as well as the Genocide In Gaza that the media only calls a war.
It also shows that there is no difference in a Left leaning government or Right leaning government when it comes to wars.
Starmer is not leading a left-leaning government. He has publicly professed admiration for Margaret Thatcher and his domestic and international policies are indistinguishable from those of his Tory predecessors.
In practical terms for Britons, it means even more austerity and cuts in social services while the rich are getting richer. Internationally, the UK is still supporting Israel's genocide and will participate with enthusiasm in American wars.
The whole point of Starmer is that he was put in charge of the Labor party by the establishment to urgently purge it of left-leaning tendencies. He has certainly succeeded admirably and leftists like Corbyn have all been kicked out of the party or sternly silenced.
The UK now has two right-wing parties and another lunatic right-wing party (Reform) waiting in the wings. Not unlike the US where we have a right-wing party (Democrats) and a lunatic right-wing party (Republicans).
Maybe this is why Corbin is not the UK's PM. The Trans-Atlantic ruling elite has bigger planes, the US/UK LIKE TO DEVIDE AND CONQUER, they appear to get ready to groom NATO to replace the Ukraine proxy to continue to weaken Russia while they sit by and watch the Europeans destroying their continent much like WW I &II while they make the profits. and keep their eyes on Iran.
the attack poodle bites
Whew ! Thankfully the 6th most powerful military has jumped in to help the world's #1 military against the world's 85th-ranked military. I was worried for a sec.
It's now all backwards…!
Go back back ,quit livin in the past
It's not working for US… Now UK joins…Soon it's not working for UK either… Just like the Biden era…!