‘Every shot fired’: Are Yemen’s Houthis a proxy force for Iran?
According to his public comments, US President Donald Trump falls in the first camp. Washington will view “every shot” fired by the Houthis as a shot fired by Iran that could bring about “dire consequences”, he said. Do Iran and the Houthis operate hand in hand? Or is it more nuanced than that? Let’s take a closer look:
What to know about Yemen’s Houthi rebels as the US steps up attacks on Iran-backed group
Under former President Joe Biden, the U.S. and the United Kingdom began a series of airstrikes against the Houthis starting in January 2024. A December report by The International Institute for Strategic Studies said the U.S. and its partners struck the Houthis over 260 times up to that point.
The strikes on Houthi sites in Yemen comes after the group said it would restart attacks in the Red Sea following weeks of ...
The administration’s bombing campaign against the Iran-backed group is running up against America's political and industrial ...
The US has launched its biggest military operation in the Middle East against Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis since Donald Trump ...
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As the strikes hit, Trump wrote on Truth Social that “tremendous damage has been inflicted upon the Houthi barbarians.” ...
Fighting between the United States and Iran-backed Houthi militants appeared to intensify on Sunday, after the U.S. military ...
The Houthis carried out scores of attacks on ships sailing off its coast after Israel launched the war on Gaza, disrupting ...
Militants in Lebanon exchanged fire with Israel, further expanding the fighting in the wake of Israel’s renewed assault on ...
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Trump claimed that while Iran has reduced its direct military assistance to the Houthis, it continues to supply them with ...
The air and naval strikes on targets controlled by the Iran-backed Houthi fighters were intended to open up international ...
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