Iran International:

The United States launched strikes on five Houthi key weapons storage facilities in Yemen on Wednesday, as part of ongoing efforts to weaken the Iran-backed group amid its maritime blockade of the Red Sea.

The blockade in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden region has seen dozens of seamen taken hostage, four deaths and two ships sunk amid nearly 100 attacks since November 2023.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement: "US forces targeted several of the Houthis' underground facilities housing various weapons components of types that the Houthis have used to target civilian and military vessels throughout the region.”

The US is leading a more than 20-nation coalition to combat the blockade, with several operations being carried out alongside the UK.

“CENTCOM forces targeted the Houthi's hardened underground facilities housing missiles, weapons components, and other munitions used to target military and civilian vessels throughout the region,” a statement from CENTCOM said.

Iran has armed, funded and trained the militia for over a decade, allowing it to take over large swathes of Yemen in a civil war which has turned the country into the region's poorest suffering a critical humanitarian crisis.

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