The United States will continue airstrikes on Yemen until the Iran-backed Houthi rebels no longer have the capability to attack global shipping and the US Navy, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday. Speaking on CBS News’ ‘Face the Nation’, Rubio stated that there is no current plan for US ground operations in Yemen. ‘I don’t think there’s a …

Flooding and lightning strikes in Yemen have killed eight civilians, underscoring the threat of extreme weather in the war-ravaged country. The lightning strikes occurred on Friday in the Al-Layha and Al-Zahra districts of Hodeida governorate on the Red Sea coast, said Hamza Saied, a doctor at the hospital in Al-Layha. “Six women and a man were killed, and three others …