Heather Mongilio
U.S. Central Command forces launched the first strikes of 2025 against the Houthis on Wednesday.
The forces, which were not identified, struck two Houthi underground Advanced Conventional Weapon storage facilities in Yemen, according to the Wednesday news release.
The strikes come eight days into the new year and are the first strikes since Dec. 31.
They also come two days after Houthi spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Sare’e posted on X that the Houthis attacked USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75), preventing the carrier and its aircraft from attacking Yemen on Jan. 6. Central Command did not acknowledge the Houthi claims, although it did post pictures of flight operations aboard Truman on Jan. 7. Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters Wednesday that the Houthis did not strike Truman.
“We never said we were going to take every capability off the map,” Singh said. “What we did say is we’re going to continue to work to degrade capabilities and to ensure upholding the international rules-based order and the free flow of commerce through that region. So we continue to be successful in our strikes. Again, we’re not going to be able to take off the map every single capability, but every single time that we conduct a dynamic strike or do the strikes that you saw CENTCOM announce earlier this morning that further degrades their capabilities and takes things off the map that they can use again merchant ships or our own Navy ships.”
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