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US and Britain strike more than a dozen Houthi targets in Yemen
The US and Britain have struck more than a dozen Houthi targets in Yemen after a surge in attacks by the Iran-backed militia group on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
It is the fourth joint action taken by the UK and the US in an attempt to deter attacks by the group on vessels, including a missile strike this week that set fire to a cargo ship.
According to US officials, American and British fighter jets hit about 18 sites across multiple locations, targeting missiles, launchers, rockets, drones and unmanned surface and underwater vehicles.
The US fighter jets launched from the USS Dwight D Eisenhower aircraft carrier, which is in the Red Sea….
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said the UK strikes were carried out by four Royal Air Force Typhoon FGR4s supported by two Voyager tankers.
The MoD saidt: "Intelligence analysis had successfully identified several very long-range drones, used by the Houthis for both reconnaissance and attack missions, at a former surface-to-air missile battery site several miles north-east of Sanaa.
"Our aircraft used Paveway IV precision guided bombs against the drones and their launchers."
The MoD said previous RAF strikes, on 11 January and 3 February, had destroyed a "number of buildings used to support" the Houthis' "done and cruise missile operations"….