injured in a drone attack on a base in jordan along the syrian border but hello everyone welcome to fox news live i am arthel neville. eric: hello everyone i m eric shawn byrd for weeks the by the administration has been accused of not responding forcefully enough against the continuing attacks by radiant back to proxies like the houthis who have been targeting shipping and air forces the tragedy at many feared has been realized. president biden respond as president ronald reagan did in the 1980s? when iran attacked our forces. reagan retaliated against rating assets directly check out half of iran s navy. in a statement released moments ago president biden says the attack was carried out by radical iran back to militant groups operating in syria and iraq. the question what will happen? arthel: let s go to lucas tomlinson he is live at the white house. lucas what more can you tell us? works this is the deadliest attack on american forces in the middle east since the october
very little pushback, anita. he s taken over the main military headquarters demanding to see the russian defense chief and the head of the military. of but the other front that we re watching closely is it seems that he has sent about 5,000 of his mercenary members up the highway towards moscow, could be within about 200 miles. not much resistance either from the russian military inside russia, but we knew that the kremlin is on high alert, sort of a counterterrorism regime. vladimir putin, of course, has been lashing out how. many a video earlier today, he said that prigozhin s actions were internal betrayal, treason, and he s promising a harsh response which, frankly, we haven t seen yet. yes, here in kyiv still russia is waging its war against ukraine. we saw 20 the cruise missiles come in overnight here. just about all of them were shot down, but there was some damage. later on in an online message ukrainian president zelenskyy had this to say about what was happening in
we turn first he is live in kyiv for us. looks at their back from the brink in neighboring russia here in kyiv right now. all is quiet but it looks like a lot of damage was done. biggest risk to vladimir putin more than two decades of rule an attempted coup in farm uprisings the men responsible missionary trade you complaining friday about the war with leadership in conduct pulling fighters out of ukraine into the russian city but with little trouble they took over the place. and yes prigozhin sent forces toward moscow with 120 miles of the place. the kremlin bracing for any attack. vladimir putin branding the actions treason. elders of president alexander lukashenko active the authority of putin speaking with prigozhin to change things. the wagner chief agreed to pull back with guaranteed security. the leader confirmed he ordered his fighters to return to field camps in ukraine including those holed up in that russian city. jon, overall it looks like a loss for the mercena
middle east. and i am jackie ibanez and back to regular programming in progress. laura: of course rumors ofws the strikes have been around for hours. knows how effective they are and in fact the wall street journal says and anticipation, the houthi with equipment andhi fortified other positions while houthi militants evacuatesed the red cy city. a what we know is that we have a middle east raging out of control while the white houseag and the pentagon give thees impression, at least nothingsi more than listless vessels driving the american people into this understanding that there is just no one at the home. joining me now is fox news e correspondent peter doocy. this just broke.g what are you hearing tonight?th speak with the first word of this is coming from the team ata the pentagon. they are saying a dozen locations with em and have beena combination of surface and air basically weapons. that means some sort of missile and then aircraft, we are told m if i can just l
begin with a fox news alert. we have just been notified within the last few minutes that the united states, along with our allies in the u.k. have begun striking the iran-backed houthi group inside of yemen. now, we do not know the extent of these strikes but they come after the houthis have been launching missiles and one way drones on u.s. positions and commercial vessels in the middle east now for a number of months. picking up in recent days in fact this action by the administration comes only after there have been 130 such attacks. the white house has called a lid. that means biden has gone to bed, so as we strike the military targets in the middle east tonight, we don t expect to hear from our commander-in-chief. meanwhile these strikes come as defense secretary lloyd austin is still out of commission. earlier today the pentagon spokesperson strolled to the mics and leveled what now looks like a telegraph. we will continue to call on these iranian proxies to cease the