TIMELINE: A look back at Houthis involvement in the Middle East as Trump launches strikes

Record ID: 1983407

  • Title: TIMELINE: A look back at Houthis involvement in the Middle East as Trump launches strikes
  • Date: 28th January 2024
  • Summary: A U.S.-led strike hit a Houthi military site on a mountain overlooking Sanaa on March 22. The U.S. and Britain have carried out strikes against Houthi targets in response to the attacks on shipping. The group has been attacking ships in the Red Sea region since November in what they say is a campaign of solidarity with Palestinians during Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza. T
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  • Keywords: Houthi attacks on ships Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea Houthi rebels Israel-Hamas conflict Middle East conflict Palestinians in Gaza Red Sea commercial vessel the Pinocchio along the Red Sea
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  • Country: Yemen
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Middle East
  • Reuters ID: LVA00I573127012024RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: U.S. and British forces have carried out at least six airstrikes on Yemen's Hodeidah International Airport and four strikes on Kamaran Island near the port of Salif off the Red Sea, Al-Masirah TV, the main television news outlet run by Yemen's Houthi movement, said on Monday (June 17).
    The strikes on Kamaran mark the first time U.S.-led coalition forces have targeted the island since airstrikes on Houthi targets began in early February.
    Yemen's internationally-recognised government believes Houthi fighters in the past have used Kamaran Island and Port Salif as a site to launch their Red Sea attacks as well as hide stockpiles of missiles and drones in its salt mines, two military sources within the government told Reuters.
    The 10-kilometres of water that stretch from the port of Salif to Kamaran Island are also part of the route that ships must transit through to reach their next port of call.
    The Houthis, who control Yemen's capital and most populous areas, have attacked international shipping in the Red Sea since November in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.
    Despite reprisals from the U.S.-British coalition and other navies, the Houthis have in recent months escalated their campaign of attacks on commercial vessels in one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
    (Production: Paul Warren, Mussab Al-Khairalla, Lewis Macdonald, Eva Weininger, Thomas Holdstock, Ben Dangerfield, Carla O'Connor)
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