American President Donald Trump, who had criticised Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for dragging the country into outside wars, seems to have changed his mind and launched a full-scale airstrike against Houthi rebels who are in occupation of parts of Yemen. According to the Pentagon, the strikes are expected to last for days. A Pentagon statement had said that the Houthis had attacked US warships 174 times, and commercial ships 145 times.

According to Houthi health ministry sources, 31 people have been killed in the strikes, and a majority of them were civilians, women and children. The attacks were launched from the aircraft carrier Harry S Truman. The United Kingdom had provided refueling facilities.

Both President Trump and Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth have made statements on their social media platforms about the strikes. It has to be noted that President Joe Biden had launched the........

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