Biden vows to keep pressure on
\nLatest strike targets radar station, Houthis vow retaliation
\nSANAA\/ GAZA
\nThe United States carried out an additional strike against Yemen\u2019s Houthi forces on Friday after President Joe Biden\u2019s administration vowed to protect shipping in the Red Sea.
\nThe latest strike, which the US said targeted a radar site, came a day after dozens of American and British strikes on Houthi facilities.
\nThe guided-missile destroyer Carney used Tomahawk missiles in the follow-on strike early on Saturday local time \u201cto degrade the Houthis\u2019 ability to attack maritime vessels, including commercial vessels,\u201d the US Central Command said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter.
\nThe Houthi movement\u2019s television channel Al-Masirah reported that the United States and Britain were targeting the Yemeni capital Sanaa with raids.
\nIntensifying concerns about a widening regional conflict, US and British warplanes, ships and submarines on Thursday launched missiles against targets across Yemen controlled by the group, which has cast its maritime campaign as support for Palestinians under siege by Israel in Gaza.
\nEven as Houthi leaders swore retaliation, Biden warned on Friday that he could order more strikes if they do not stop their attacks on merchant and military vessels in one of the world\u2019s most economically vital waterways.
\n\u201cWe will make sure that we respond to the Houthis if they continue this outrageous behaviour,\u201d Biden told reporters during a stop in Pennsylvania on Friday.
\nWitnesses confirmed explosions early on Friday, Yemen time, at military bases near airports in the capital Sanaa and Yemen\u2019s third city Taiz, a naval base at Yemen\u2019s main Red Sea port Hodeidah and military sites in the coastal Hajjah governorate.
\nWhite House spokesperson John Kirby said the initial strikes had targeted the Houthis\u2019 ability to store, launch and guide missiles or drones, which the group has used in recent months to threaten Red Sea shipping.
\nThe Pentagon claimed the US-British assault reduced the Houthis\u2019 capacity to launch fresh attacks. The US military said 60 targets in 28 sites were hit.
\nThe Houthis, who control Sanaa and much of the west and north of Yemen, said five fighters were killed, but they vowed to continue their attacks on regional shipping.
\nThe UK Maritime Trade Operations information hub said it had received reports of a missile landing in the sea around 500 meters (1,600 feet) from a ship about 90 nautical miles southeast of the Yemeni port of Aden.
\nThe shipping security firm Ambrey identified it as a Panama-flagged tanker carrying Russian oil.
\nDrone footage on the Houthis\u2019 Al-Masirah TV showed hundreds of thousands of people in Sanaa chanting slogans denouncing Israel and the United States.
\n\u201cYour strikes on Yemen are terrorism,\u201d said Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, a member of the Houthi Supreme Political Council. \u201cThe United States is the Devil.\u201d
\nBiden, whose administration removed the Houthis from a State Department list of \u201cforeign terrorist organizations\u201d in 2021, was asked by reporters if he felt the term \u201cterrorist\u201d described the movement now. \u201cI think they are,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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