The United States has launched “precision strikes” on five underground weapons storage facilities in Yemen, targeting Houthi-controlled locations used to launch attacks on civilian and military ships.

The U.S. announced late Wednesday that it had conducted multiple strikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebel group, targeting its underground bunkers with stealth bombers. U.S. Central Command (Centcom) said in a statement online that its forces had conducted “multiple,

The strikes hit hardened underground facilities housing advanced conventional weapons, missiles, and munitions used by the Houthis to threaten international shipping in the Red Sea, Bab Al-Mandeb Strait,