The airstrike came just a day after the U.S. and U.K. launched strikes on dozens of targets in Houthi-controlled Yemen in response to the Iranian-backed rebel group’s ongoing assault targeting shipping vessels in the Red Sea.
American forces conducted another airstrike on a Houthi-controlled site in Yemen early Saturday, U.S. officials confirmed.
U.S. Central Command reported that the USS Carney, a destroyer, conducted the strike at 3:45 a.m. local time Saturday on a Houthi radar site using Tomahawk missiles. No further details were provided, although Associated Press journalists in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, heard one loud explosion.
The airstrike came just a day after the U.S. and U.K. in Houthi-controlled Yemen in response to the Iranian-backed rebel group’s ongoing assault targeting shipping vessels in the Red Sea.
Lt. Gen. Douglas A. Sims II, director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Friday’s strikes used more than 150 precision-guided munition to hit nearly 30 locations. CENTCOM said the strikes targeted “command and control nodes, munitions depots, launching systems, production facilities, and air defense radar systems.
