The latest round of strikes occurred as the United States and its ally Israel struggle to halt a campaign of regional assaults by Yemen’s Houthi militants.

The US military on Tuesday said it hit targets in Yemen targeting the Houthi militia, hours after the Iran-backed group launched attacks on Israel. The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) said its warships and aircraft attacked a number of Houthi-linked sites,

The head of the World Health Organization said he was about to board a flight in the Yemeni capital when the airport came under bombardment.

Israel is signaling a wider campaign against Houthi militants in Yemen, a mountainous and impoverished country more than 1,000 miles from Israeli territory.

Israel has severely weakened Hamas and Hezbollah. Now it's going after another member of Iran's so-called axis of resistance: the Houthi rebels of Yemen.

An official says the Yemeni group will not stop until the war in Gaza ends, as Israel's PM says it is "just getting started".

Israel's devastating campaigns against Iran's regional allies have severely weakened its arch-enemy's ability to project its power, but Yemen's Tehran-backed Huthi rebels remain a stubborn thorn in its side,

Gaza Yemen's Houthis said on Tuesday that they carried out two operations attacking Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv with a hypersonic ballistic missile and a power station in southern Jerusalem using a ballistic missile,