US strikes on Yemen jeopardize shipping in the Red Sea, even for vessels unrelated to the conflict, but will not stop attacks on ships bound for Israeli ports, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday.
The United States believes its strikes on positions of the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who control northern Yemen, were effective, and may make the Shia movement stop attacking ships in the Red Sea, US National Security spokesman John Kirby said on Sunday.
On this episode of The Backstory, host Rachel Blevins discussed several topics from around the globe, including the US-led Coalition s powerful attack on western Yemen.
US President Joe Biden ordered the start of planning strikes on targets of Yemen s Houthi rebels on January 1 following his meeting with the US national security team on the island of Saint Croix in the Caribbean Sea, where he was spending his New Year vacation, Bloomberg reported on Saturday, citing sources.