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By Faris Tanyos
February 3, 2024 / 5:03 PM EST
/ CBS News
U.S. and U.K. military forces late Saturday night launched joint airstrikes on Iranian-backed Houthi targets in Yemen, two U.S. officials confirmed to CBS News.
Explore the details of the airstrikes from Faris Tanyos.
The airstrikes come one day after the U.S. launched retaliatory airstrikes on more than 85 targets of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its affiliated militias in Syria and Iraq in response to last weekend’s drone strike on a Jordanian base which killed three U.S. service members.
Saturday night’s airstrikes came in addition to self-defense strikes that were launched earlier Saturday evening targeting six Houthi anti-ship cruise missiles that were being prepared for launch against ships in the Red Sea, U.S. Central Command said.
A U.S. defense official told CBS News that since Friday’s strikes in Iraq and Syria, there has been one attack on U.S. forces. In that attack, multiple rockets targeted U.S. forces based at the Mission Support Site Euphrates in Syria, but there were no reports of injuries or damage.
Find out more about the third time that the U.S. and U.K. have taken part in joint airstrikes since Yemen-based Houthi militants began launching attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea. Find out all the details from journalist Faris Tanyos.
Sources reveal there have been 167 attacks by Iranian-backed groups on U.S. forces in Iraq, Syria and Jordan since Oct 17 of last year.
A soldier of the Iran-backed Houthi militia takes part in a demonstration against the U.S. and Israel on Feb. 2, 2024, in Sanaa, Yemen.
— David Martin and Eleanor Watson contributed to this report.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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- Houthi Movement
- Hamas
- Israel
Faris Tanyos
Faris Tanyos is a news editor for CBSNews.com, where he writes and edits stories and tracks breaking news. He previously worked as a digital news producer at several local news stations up and down the West Coast.
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