At least 31 people were killed in US military strikes in Yemen at the start of a campaign expected to last many days. The US administration launched large-scale military strikes against Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis on March 15 over the group's attacks against Red Sea shipping since Oct 2023.
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00:00The United States on Saturday launched large-scale military strikes against the Houthis over
00:08their attacks against ships from the U.S. and other countries in the Red Sea.
00:17The U.S. strikes against the Iran-aligned group in Yemen have killed at least 31 people
00:22and wounding 101 others, mostly civilians, said the Houthi-run health ministry on Sunday.
00:29The Houthi political bureau described the attacks as a war crime, saying that they are
00:34prepared for a response.
00:37Residents in Sana'a said the strikes hit a building in a Houthi stronghold.
00:41The strikes also targeted Houthi military sites in Taiz, while a power station in Dayan
00:46town was attacked, and this led to a power cut.
00:50U.S. sources were reportedly saying that the strikes might continue for weeks.
00:55U.S. President Donald Trump said on his social media posts that it had been over a year since
01:00a U.S.-flagged commercial ship safely sailed through the Red Sea, Suez Canal, or the Gulf
01:06of Aden.
01:07He said the last U.S. warship to go through the Red Sea four months ago was attacked by
01:12the Houthis over a dozen times.
01:15Pentagon said the Houthis had attacked U.S. warships 174 times and commercial vessels
01:21145 times since 2023, in what the Houthis said were done in solidarity with Palestinians
01:27over Israel's war in Gaza.
01:30Speaking at an event in Iran in commemoration of a perished commander, General Hossein Salami
01:36said their enemies are repeating past mistakes in Lebanon, Gaza, Yemen, Iraq, and Afghanistan.