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Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n US Central Command forces on Saturday carried out air strikes against a Houthi anti-ship missile that was aimed into the Gulf of Aden and was prepared to launch, the US military said.<\/p>\n \u201cUS forces determined the missile presented a threat to merchant vessels and US Navy ships in the region, and subsequently struck and destroyed the missile in self-defence,\u201d the US Central Command said in a statement on X.<\/p>\n Noting that the air strikes in Yemen by US and UK forces can have a multi-faceted impact in the Middle East, experts say, even as over 40 allied governments claim the attack was a necessity.<\/p>\n While the targeted strike led by US and UK forces to deter \u201cbrazen\u201d Houthi aggression in the Red Sea was necessary to stand up to the militant group and deter further destabilization in the key shipping route, according to experts and government officials, some analysts say the attack will harm a potential permanent ceasefire and not do much to deter the Iran-backed group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed\u00a0 US Central Command forces on Saturday carried out air strikes against a Houthi anti-ship missile that was aimed into the Gulf of Aden and was prepared to launch, the US military said. \u201cUS forces determined the missile presented a threat to merchant vessels and US Navy ships in the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12011","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\/12011","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12013,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12011\/revisions\/12013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}