On Saturday, the United States and Britain launched attacks on 36 targets belonging to Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Washington:
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday that the United States was planning further attacks after Iran-backed militias killed three U.S. troops last weekend.
“We intend to take additional strikes and actions to continue to send a clear message that when our troops are attacked and our people are killed,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press” , the United States will respond.”
The United States and Britain launched strikes on 36 Houthi rebel targets in Yemen on Saturday, a day after a major U.S. operation targeting Iran-linked groups following a deadly attack in Jordan last weekend that killed three U.S. troops. .
The Pentagon said Saturday’s strikes targeted 13 sites used by Yemen’s Houthi rebels to attack Red Sea shipping, a day after the United States launched the first wave of retaliatory strikes against more than 85 targets in Iraq and Syria linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. . and the militias it supports.
It is the latest blow in a conflict that has spread to the Middle East since October 7, when the Palestinian group Hamas stormed into Israel from the Gaza Strip, sparking a war that led to attacks by Tehran-backed groups on U.S. and Israeli targets in several countries. aspects.
“What happened on Friday is the beginning, not the end, of our response, and there will be more to come – some visible, some potentially,” Sullivan told CBS’s “Face the Nation.” It’s invisible.” “I wouldn’t describe it as some kind of endless military operation.
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