2 w. ago US to halt bombing campaign against Houthis in Yemen, Trump says

Donald Trump said the Houthis ‘don’t want to fight any more’, following air raids by the US, Israel and the UKThe US will halt its bombing campaign against Yemen’s Houthis after Donald Trump claimed the Iran-aligned group had agreed to stop targeting shipping in the Red Sea.The halt – announced by the US president during an Oval Office meeting with Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, came on a day in which Israel claimed its jets had fully disabled Yemen’s main airport, including three civilian aircraft on the ground, in retaliation for a missile strike on Sunday that hit within the perimeter of Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago US agrees ceasefire with Houthis in Yemen after dozens killed in airstrikes

The Houthis have agreed to stop targeting commercial shipping in the Red Sea, but said attacks against Israel will continueThe US will halt its bombing campaign against Yemen’s Houthis after the Iran-aligned group agreed to stop targeting shipping in the Red Sea.The halt – announced by the US president, Donald Trump, during an Oval Office meeting with Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, came on a day in which Israel claimed its jets had fully disabled Yemen’s main airport, including three civilian aircraft on the ground, in retaliation for a missile strike on Sunday that hit within the perimeter of Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump reveals Houthis have 'capitulated' and he will end U.S. strikes on them immediately

President Donald Trump announced that he has called off airstrikes on Yemen after hearing word from the Houthis that they would no longer attack ships.

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3 w. ago Militarily cosying up to Trump in Yemen cannot end well for the UK | Paul Rogers

US foreign policy is turning it into a global pariah – yet Labour’s strike on the Houthis represents a new level of supportPaul Rogers is emeritus professor of peace studies at Bradford UniversityThis week’s RAF attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen was the first to be approved by the Labour government. It joined a major US military operation that started in March and has involved 45 days of airstrikes. Operation Rough Rider is a demonstration by the Trump administration that it will prosecute a vigorous war that is more intense than under Joe Biden, and has, according to the US, already seen more than 1,000 targets hit.The RAF operation reportedly targeted a plant manufacturing armed drones used in Houthi attacks on shipping transiting the Red Sea, and demonstrated that Keir Starmer has decided to be Donald Trump’s closest military ally.Paul Rogers is emeritus professor of peace studies at Bradford University Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Trump promised peace but brings rapid increase in civilian casualties to Yemen | Dan Sabbagh

Escalation from US military suggests previous restraints on causing civilian casualties have been relaxed“I am the candidate of peace,” Donald Trump declared on the campaign trail last November. Three months into his presidency, not only is the war in Ukraine continuing and the war in Gaza restarted, but in Yemen, the number of civilian casualties caused by US bombing is rapidly and deliberately escalating.Sixty-eight were killed overnight, the Houthis said, when the US military bombed a detention centre holding African migrants in Saada, north-west Yemen, as part of a campaign against the rebel group. In the words of the US Central Command (Centcom), its purpose is to “restore freedom of navigation” in the Red Sea and, most significantly, “American deterrence”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago US strikes kill 8 in Yemen's capital, Houthi rebels say, as America says over 800 strikes conducted

U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen’s capital killed at least eight people overnight

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