US targets more Houthi anti-ship missiles aimed at Red Sea
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People watch top Houthi leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, delivering a TV speech, a day after the US re-designated his movement as a global terrorist group, in Sana'a, Yemen.
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WASHINGTON - The United States launched additional strikes early on Jan 18 targeting two Houthi anti-ship missiles that were being prepared to fire into the Red Sea and deemed “an imminent threat” to shipping and US Navy vessels in the region, the US military said.
“US Central Command forces conducted strikes on two Houthi anti-ship missiles that were aimed into the Southern Red Sea and were prepared to launch,” US Central Command said, in a statement.
White House national security spokesman John Kirby, during a briefing aboard Air Force One, said the latest strikes were similar to those on Jan 17 taking aim at Houthi missiles that were prepared to fire in the southern Red Sea.
Mr Biden separately told reporters earlier on Jan 18 that air strikes would continue even if they may not be halting the Houthi attacks.
“Are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they gonna continue? Yes,” Mr Biden said, before boarding Air Force One to leave the White House.
The latest US strikes come one day after the US returned the Yemen-based Houthi rebels to a list of terrorist groups.
