The war has now expanded into a full multi-front confrontation, from Lebanon and Gaza to Yemen, with Iran-backed proxies increasingly coordinating pressure on Israel.
The bill emphasizes force protection, missile defense, and awareness of Iran’s evolving capabilities, but it still treats Iran as a problem to manage rather than an adversary the U.S. military must roll back.
The video shows Jordanians enjoying a day out on the ocean, cheering and whooping as smoke rises from the site of a Houthi drone attack that injured 22 people in Israel.
In recent days, several missiles have indeed landed inside Saudi territory. At the same time, the Houthis appear to be trying to embarrass Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states.
Monday’s operation at Hudaydah Port is Jerusalem’s most recent strike on the Houthis as part of an ongoing response to a wave of missile and drone attacks that began after the Hamas-led assault in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
In the wake of the strike, Ben-Gurion Airport halted all takeoffs and landings for approximately 30 minutes, forcing at least three inbound aircraft to remain airborne.
"We will come after the Houthis until they stop shooting at our ships, and the Iranians better stay out of it," vowed U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
The United States imposed sanctions on seven senior members of the Houthis, the Treasury Department announced Wednesday, a day after the Trump administration re-designated the Iran-backed rebels in Yemen as a foreign terrorist organization.
The order signed by the US president fully restores tough American sanctions on the Yemen-based terror group that the Biden administration lifted in 2021.
The secretary-general 'couldn’t bring himself to mention' that Israeli citizens have been 'relentlessly attacked by the Houthis,' the Foreign Ministry said.