Pro-government militias sense opportunity to claw back territory from Iran-backed militants

A senior leader of Ansar Allah, commonly known as the Houthis, told Drop Site News that if the U.S. ends its campaign of air strikes against Yemen, Houthi forces will commit to halting all attacks on U.S. ships in the region. “We do not consider ourselves at war with the American people,” said Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of Ansar Allah’s political bureau and a longtime spokesperson for the Houthis. “If the U.S. stops targeting Yemen, we will cease our military operations against it.”

Sanaa, Yemen – On the evening of March 15, Ammar Mohammed* strolled through the vibrant streets of a modern residential neighbourhood in northern Sanaa.

On Saturday, Yemen’s SABA news agency reported that footage shared by President Trump that showed a US airstrike in Yemen hit a religious gathering, not a Houthi military meeting as the president claimed.

The US has significantly increased the presence of heavy bombers at its base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, signaling the US could launch heavier airstrikes on Yemen.

The full Signal chat between Trump administration officials discussing bombing Yemen revealed that top US officials celebrated an airstrike that flattened a residential building, which likely killed many civilians.

Vice President JD Vance cautioned against bombing Yemen before the US restarted its airstrikes on the country, calling it a “mistake,” and suggested delaying the attack by one month, according to a leaked Signal conversation between administration officials.

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

Yemen’s Houthis fired another missile at Israel on Sunday, with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claiming it intercepted at least one projectile. The Houthis have repeatedly voiced support for Palestinians during the war in Gaza, targeting Israel-linked shipping in the Red Sea and launching missiles at the country.

The US launched another round of missile strikes across Yemen early Wednesday morning, Yemeni media has reported.

President Trump on Monday issued a new threat to Iran, saying that he will hold Tehran accountable for Houthi attacks. The warning came after US officials acknowledged that the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, act independently from Iran and are unlikely to take orders from Tehran.

A major round of US airstrikes that hit Yemen on Saturday killed at least 53 people, including women and children, Yemen’s Health Ministry said on Sunday.

The US military said Wednesday that it launched more strikes on Yemen, claiming to target underground Houthi weapons storage facilities.

The US carried out a round of strikes in Yemen against the Iran-backed Houthis on Wednesday evening, according to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, targeting five underground weapons storage facilities using B-2 stealth bombers.

Lt. Col. Jeremy Anderson tilted up the nose of his U.S. Air Force C-130 and tipped 16 pallets of emergency food aid out of the cargo bay and into the sky above northern Gaza.

Lawmakers on both sides of political aisle lambasted Biden administration's self-defence justification to defend commercial vessels of foreign nations

The successful targeting of the four cables, which are believed to belong to the AAE-1, Seacom, EIG, and TGN systems, marks a serious disruption of communications between Europe and Asia.

The European Union launched on Monday a naval mission to the Red Sea "to restore and safeguard freedom of navigation" there.

A series of US and British airstrikes were reported in Yemen’s western Red Sea province of Hodeidah on Wednesday as the US continues its heavy bombing campaign against the Houthis.

The US is purposely blocking a Yemen peace deal that was negotiated between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.