The United Kingdom and the United States targeted 16 locations in Yemen where they say they attacked Houthi targets with 60 airstrikes. The Houthis have launched rockets at Israel that were intercepted, and attacked commercial shipping in the Red Sea, which is a key maritime transit route, especially for global trade. The World’s Carol Hills talks with Gregory D. Johnsen, a nonresident fellow for the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington about the Houthis’ domestic political incentives in Yemen that drive them to attack, the United States’ national security priorities in the Red Sea, and how difficult it may be to stop escalation in what is starting to become a regional war.
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