At least three people were killed and four others wounded in fresh US airstrikes on Yemen's capital Sanaa, its outskirts, and other provinces.
At least six people were killed and 15 others injured in multiple US airstrikes across Yemen on Tuesday, according to Houthi-run al-Masirah TV and local health authorities.
The Houthi group reported on Tuesday that US forces have carried out 22 airstrikes on its targets in Yemen's northern Sanaa and Saada provinces over the past several hours.
US President Donald Trump has hit out at "fake news media" and the "radical left" for allegedly conducting a biased coverage of messages leaked from a Signal group chat, where US officials had discussed strikes on Iran-backed Houthi targets in Yemen.
The latest wave of US air strikes on Houthi positions in Yemen marks a dangerous escalation in a regional conflict that is fast becoming a global concern.
President Biden would also have to apply pressure on the Saudis and their allies in the region to withdraw their troops from South Yemen.
The Indians were among 14 foreigners who were taken captive when the Houthi rebels seized the UAE-flagged merchant vessel Rwabee in the Red Sea on January 2
The war has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced 4 million, and pushed the country to the brink of starvation, according to the UN.
Tehran now has a foothold on the Arabian Peninsula and while the Houthis don’t follow Iran blindly, their military leadership has established a close relationship with Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The world has the ill-conceived intervention in Yemen by the Saudis to thank for this.
The impact on the Yemeni population caught between the Saudi forces and Houthi rebels has been devastating. Ordinary Yemenis have no place of refuge in the region to flee to from the incessant violence. Experts peg the number of internally displaced persons in Yemen at close to four million.
