Yemeni Houthis have attacked the US aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea. The strike was carried out in response to US airstrikes on Yemen, reports Al Jazeera and Houthi Brigadier General Yahya Saree.

“The Houthi military spokesperson said that the group has responded to the US bombing of Yemen by attacking the USS Harry S Truman with ballistic missiles and a drone,” the report said.

Yahya Saree specified that the Houthis launched 18 missiles. He also claimed that the US had carried out more than 47 airstrikes on several Yemeni provinces, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries.

    • @yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works
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      131 day ago

      Always has been, actually the North Vietnamese were the rebel alliance according to Lucas, but the US has always been the bad guys in that media franchise.

    • @ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml
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      161 day ago

      Undying support for Israel has always been part of it, but it was never the reason. The United States has never not been a colonialist empire.

      • @arafatknee@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        71 day ago

        Still. The fact that the US would rather burn resources not to mention it’s global facade of being a benign hegemon propping up a genocidal apartheid state instead of focusing on it’s strategic interests is baffling.