US and UK Launch Round of Heavy Airstrikes on Yemen

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 in the al-Hawk district. 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.