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US military targets Houthi radar sites in Yemen
The attacks come as the U.S. Navy faces the most intense combat it has seen since World War II in trying to counter the Houthi campaign.
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The attacks come as the U.S. Navy faces the most intense combat it has seen since World War II in trying to counter the Houthi campaign.
It comes just two days after the Houthis shot down another U.S. military MQ-9 Reaper drone.
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This is the fourth round of joint coalition strikes to pressure the Houthis to stop attacking commercial shipping lanes in the Red Sea.
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The airstrike came just a day after the U.S. and U.K. launched strikes on dozens of targets in Houthi-controlled Yemen.
The Houthis, an Iran-backed proxy force, have been attacking commercial shipping in the Red Sea since soon after the Israel-Hamas war began.
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