BAGHDAD/SANA’A, (PIC)
The US army carried out renewed aerial attacks on different targets in Iraq and Yemen on Wednesday.
“At president Biden’s direction, US military forces conducted necessary and proportionate strikes on three facilities used by the Iranian-backed Kataib Hezbollah militia group and other Iran-affiliated groups in Iraq,” secretary of defense Lloyd Austin said in a statement.
“These precision strikes are in direct response to a series of escalatory attacks against US and Coalition personnel in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-sponsored militias,” he claimed.
In a related context, Iraqi security forces said that five explosions happened in Jurf al-Sakhar area in Babil governorate, south of Baghdad, following airstrikes.
The same sources also said that two members of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) were killed in an aerial attack on al-Qa’im border town, northwest of Baghdad.
The US central command also announced it had struck two anti-ship missiles belonging to Yemen’s Houthi group that were being prepared for launch and were aimed at the southern part of the Red Sea.
On Tuesday, senior official of Yemen’s Ansarullah group Mohamed al-Houthi called on the US and Britain to withdraw their military ships from the Red Sea, warning that the armed forces would “sink any ship that acts against the Yemeni people.”
“The American-British presence in the Red Sea aims to defend the Zionist entity, which is committing a genocidal war against the Palestinian people in Gaza, and not to protect international maritime security as Washington and London claim,” he said.
