{"id":11147,"date":"2024-01-13T13:01:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T13:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=11147"},"modified":"2024-01-13T13:01:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T13:01:50","slug":"us-carries-fresh-strikes-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/13\/us-carries-fresh-strikes-in-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"US Carries Fresh Strikes in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United States carried out a fresh strike Saturday on a Houthi target in Yemen, US Central Command said, after the Iran-backed militants warned of further attacks on ships in the Red Sea.<br \/>\nThe strike on a Houthi radar site comes a day after scores of attacks across the country heightened fears that Israel\u2019s war with Palestinian militant group Hamas could engulf the wider region.<br \/>\nThe Iran-backed militants\u2019 official media earlier said the Al-Dailami airbase in Yemen\u2019s Houthi-held capital of Sanaa had been struck.<br \/>\nThe Houthis, who have carried out weeks of attacks on Israel-linked shipping in protest of the Israel-Hamas war, warned that US and British interests were \u201clegitimate targets\u201d after the first volley of strikes.<br \/>\nBritain, the United States and eight allies said strikes carried out on Friday had aimed to \u201cde-escalate tensions\u201d, but the Houthis vowed to continue their attacks.<br \/>\nHussein al-Ezzi, the Houthis\u2019 deputy foreign minister, said the United States and Britain would \u201chave to prepare to pay a heavy price\u201d.<br \/>\nThe Houthis have controlled much of Yemen since a civil war erupted in 2014 and are part of an Iran-backed \u201caxis of resistance\u201d against Israel and its allies.<br \/>\nViolence involving Iran-aligned groups in Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria has surged since the war in Gaza began in early October.<br \/>\nUN chief Antonio Guterres called on all sides \u201cnot to escalate\u201d in the interest of regional peace and stability, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.<br \/>\nThe UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on the strikes Friday, days after adopting a resolution demanding the Houthis immediately stop their attacks on ships.<br \/>\nAt the meeting, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield warned that no ship was safe from the threat posed by Houthis to shipping in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed The United States carried out a fresh strike Saturday on a Houthi target in Yemen, US Central Command said, after the Iran-backed militants warned of further attacks on ships in the Red Sea. The strike on a Houthi radar site comes a day after scores of attacks across the country &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11149,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147\/revisions\/11149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}