Houthis

January 16, 2024 — Scott Johnson

What we’ve got here, cont’d

Featured image Jay Solomon reports for Semafor this morning that commanders and advisers from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are on the ground in Yemen and playing a direct role in Houthi rebel attacks on commercial traffic in the Red Sea. Solomon’s story is posted here. Semafor provides this summary of the story in its Principals newsletter (links omitted): Iran has deployed personnel from its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to Yemen, according »
January 15, 2024 — Scott Johnson

What we’ve got here

Featured image Via the tweet below, CentCom reports that yesterday “at 4:45 p.m. (Sanaa time), an anti-ship cruise missile was fired from Iranian-backed Houthi militant areas of Yemen toward USS Laboon (DDG 58), which was operating in the Southern Red Sea. The missile was shot down in vicinity of the coast of Hudaydah by U.S. fighter aircraft. There were no injuries or damage reported.” That is yet another in a series of »