Acting with its allies in the region, US military conducted airstrikes for the second consecutive day, but this time it was striking Iranian-armed Houthi rebels in Yemen who are responsible for harassing shipping around the Red Sea, not attacking the Iranian-backed groups operating in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere, CBS News reports.
In the third such attack in the last three weeks, Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands and New Zealand military services provided support as US and British forces struck 36 Houthi targets located at 13 sites in Yemen. US officials say that these attacks are a separate operation from Friday’s attacks on 85 sites of Iranian support groups in Syria and Iraq, but c’mon, they’re all designed to wipe out Iranian-supported groups to send a signal to Teheran to stop proving arms to these groups.