Pentagon Central Command forces carried out multiple air-strikes against Houthi weapons facilities in Yemen on Nov. 9 and 10. Both Air Force and Navy aircraft, including F-35C fighter jets, were involved in the strikes, which were in response to Houthi attacks on commercial ships and US-led coalition military vessels in the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab Strait and Gulf of Aden. CentCom also conducted strikes against targets at two locations "associated with Iranian groups in Syria" on Nov. 11. The strikes were in response to drone and artillery attacks on US personnel that took place the previous day at Mission Support Site "Green Village [11]" in northeast Syria. (DOD News [9])
The Syria strikes mark the latest in a growing handful of times [12] that the US has bombed forces allied with the Bashar Assad regime. These have generally targeted Iran-backed militia forces [13] rather than actual regime troops.
