The US and its allies were readying Thursday to begin major strikes against Houthi militants in Yemen who have been firing on shipping vessels in the Red Sea.
The US and its allies were readying Thursday to begin major strikes against Houthi militants in Yemen who have been firing on shipping vessels in the Red Sea — just days after the Iran-backed rebels launched “the largest attack” to date.
The offensive could take place “within hours,” according to the UK Times political editor, Steven Swinford.
Officials have notified shipping executives that targets would include drone and missile launch sites, along with radar stations and weapons stockpiles in the coastal Yemeni city of Hodeida, and further inland in Hajjah, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Sites in the Yemeni capital, San’a, could also be targeted.
Tensions in the Red Sea have increased by the week since the Islamist extremist group began attacking and hijacking cargo ships passing through the vital Red Sea, a critical shipping corridor, following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.
Their activities have ground commerce in the region to a halt and led some of the world’s largest shipping companies to cease operations in the Red Sea.
