WASHINGTON, Jan 16 (Reuters) – The U.S. military carried out a new strike in Yemen on Tuesday targeting four anti-ship missiles in a part of the country controlled by Houthi rebels, two U.S. officials told Reuters.
The strikes come after those carried out last week by the Americans and the British against a series of sites used by Yemen’s Houthi rebels to launch attacks on ships traveling in the Red Sea.
The Houthis, who control most of Yemen, are disrupting global trade by attacking ships passing through the Bab el Mandeb Strait at the southern end of the Red Sea, what they say is a response to the war being waged by Israel in Gaza. They have, to date, carried out 27 attacks on commercial shipping lanes in the Red Sea since November 19.
Last December, the United States set up an international operation called “Prosperity Guardian” with around twenty countries to ensure the security of maritime transport, but the Anglo-American strikes are not part of this coalition. (Reporting by Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart, French version by Diana Mandiá)
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