US says B2 bombers launched ‘precision strikes’ against Houthis in Yemen

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says strikes aimed astatine countering Houthis’ ‘destabilising behaviour’.

The United States subject has bombed a bid of Houthi targets successful Yemen, the US defence main has said.

US Air Force B-2 bombers conducted “precision strikes” against 5 underground weapons retention locations successful Houthi-controlled areas of the country, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said connected Wednesday.

The strikes targeted “hardened” underground facilities utilized to store weapons components of the benignant utilized by the Houthis to people civilian and subject vessels successful the region, Austin said.

“This was a unsocial objection of the United States’ quality to people facilities that our adversaries question to support retired of reach, nary substance however profoundly buried underground, hardened oregon fortified,” Austin said.

“The employment of US Air Force B-2 Spirit long-range stealth bombers show US planetary onslaught capabilities to instrumentality enactment against these targets erstwhile necessary, anytime, anywhere.”

Austin said Houthi attacks continued to disrupt planetary trade, and helium had ordered the strikes to “degrade the Houthis’ capableness to proceed their destabilising behaviour and to support and support US forces and unit successful 1 of the world’s astir captious waterways”.

US Central Command said successful a abstracted connection that its harm appraisal did not bespeak civilian casualties.

The Iran-backed Houthis person carried retired much than 100 rocket and drone attacks connected ships successful the Red Sea since the commencement of the warfare successful Gaza.

The Yemeni radical has formed its attacks arsenic a amusement of enactment for Palestinians facing Israeli bombardment, though it has besides attacked vessels with nary evident transportation to the war.

The US latest bombing raids travel a time aft the United Nations peculiar envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, warned that the state was astatine hazard of being dragged further into the subject escalation successful the Middle East.

While Yemenis “yearn” for peace, hopes for an extremity to escalating unit successful the portion “seem distant”, Grundberg told the UN Security Council.

“Now, similar galore successful the Middle East, their hopes for a brighter aboriginal are falling nether the shadiness of perchance catastrophic determination conflagration,” helium said.