US military provides few details on daily strikes in Yemen

The Pentagon has declined to disclose the number of targets hit in Yemen or the names of Houthi commanders killed in the campaign.

US military provides few details on daily strikes in Yemen | INFBusiness.com

Eric Schmitt

The U.S. military has been striking Houthi targets in Yemen every day since March 15, but the Pentagon has not provided details of attacks since March 17, when it said it hit more than 30 Houthi targets on the first day.

The Central Command has posted images on social media of aircraft flying missions against the Iran-backed Houthi militia, but has declined to say how many targets it has hit so far or to name several Houthi commanders it says have been killed.

The strikes in Yemen have been at the center of a scandal involving Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other senior members of the Trump administration, who discussed sensitive details of the planned mission in a group chat on a messaging app before it began.

On Monday, The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg wrote that he had been inadvertently included in a chat whose details could have put the lives of American fighter pilots at risk.

Mr Hegseth tried to play down the significance of the leak, saying on Monday that “nobody sent text messages with war plans, and that's all I can say about that.”

A Central Command spokesman said this week that the strikes “destroyed command and control facilities, air defense systems, weapons production facilities and advanced weapons storage facilities.”


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