U.S. forces launched new strikes on the Ras Isa port in northwest Yemen on April 17, damaging a key artery believed to be supplying fuel sustaining Yemen’s Houthis.
“Today, U.S. forces took action to eliminate this source of fuel for the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists and deprive them of illegal revenue that has funded Houthi efforts to terrorize the entire region for over 10 years,” the U.S. Central Command announced in a Thursday press statement.
Originally formed in opposition to Yemen’s U.N.-recognized government, the Houthis seized control over Yemen’s capital city of Sana’a in September 2014. The predominantly Zaidi Shiite faction has fought in an ongoing war with the Yemeni government, now located in Aden….