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U.S. Defense officials said U.S. and U.K. ships and warplanes carried out multiple strikes on Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Monday.
Multiple locations in Yemen experienced large explosions which were the result of the airstrikes.
A U.S. official tells Fox News one of the Houthi targets struck by U.S. and British munitions included Al Dailami Air Base along with missile launching sites and weapons storage facilities for ballistic missiles and drones.
This is the second joint U.S.-U.K. strikes from air and sea since Jan 11.
In this image provided by the UK Ministry of Defence taken on Thursday Jan. 11, 2024 shows an RAF Typhoon aircraft taking off from RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, for a mission to strike targets in Yemen. The U.S. and British militaries bombed more than a dozen sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen late on Thursday, in a massive retaliatory strike using warship- and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets, U.S. officials said. (Sgt Lee Goddard, UK Ministry of Defence via AP)
“We can tell you that we observed good impacts and effects at all eight locations. Assessing that we did, in fact, destroy missiles, unmanned aerial systems and weapon storage areas.”
Along with the F-18 super hornets from the USS Eisenhower, guided missile destroyers USS Mason, USS Philippine Sea and USS Gravely assisted with Tomahawk land attack missiles.
The U.K. also contributed fighter aircraft during the mission.
Pentagon officials estimate 25-30 munitions were dropped on Houthi targets, though assessments are ongoing.
The number of Houthi casualties is unknown, but the number is expected to be low, according to U.S. military officials, because the targets were “not intentionally selected for casualties. They were going after weapons systems.”
The Pentagon also said this was the first time the U.S. has struck an underground storage facility of this time in Yemen.
“The particular weapons storage facility was assessed to have more advanced conventional weaponry in it than in the first strike on the 11th,” a senior military official said, adding the facility was used to store missiles and unmanned systems.
Still, the senior official stressed that the U.S. is selecting targets with no intent of expanding the conflict in the Middle East.
“We’re specifically avoiding escalation by selecting these locations and individual targets that will remove capability used in maritime attacks,” the official said. “We are not at this time expanding beyond that.”
There have been at least 151 attacks on U.S. forces in the region since Oct. 17.
