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title: "US and Britain launch strikes against dozens of Houthi targets in Yemen"
url: https://radiomoldova.md/p/29739/us-and-britain-launch-strikes-against-dozens-of-houthi-targets-in-yemen
published: 2024-02-04T09:53:08Z
language: en
author: "Carolina Străjescu"
section: "International"
source: radiomoldova.md
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# US and Britain launch strikes against dozens of Houthi targets in Yemen

> The United States and Britain struck at least 30 Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday in another wave of assaults meant to further disable Iran-backed groups that have attacked US and international interests in response to the Israel-Hamas war, The Guardian reports.

The United States and Britain struck at least 30 Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday in another wave of assaults meant to further disable Iran-backed groups that have attacked US and international interests in response to the Israel-Hamas war, The Guardian reports.

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Ships and fighter jets on Saturday launched strikes against the Houthis. It followed an air assault in Iraq and Syria on Friday targeting other Iran-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in retaliation for the drone strike that killed three US troops – William Jerome Rivers, Kennedy Ladon Sanders and Breonna Alexsondria Moffett – in Jordan last weekend.

The US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, said the military action “sends a clear message to the Houthis that they will continue to bear further consequences if they do not end their illegal attacks on international shipping and naval vessels.”