US President Joe Biden. - AFP
(Bloomberg) Houthi rebels vowed to target US and UK commercial vessels a day after the allies launched airstrikes against the group in Yemen, fanning concern that the Israel-Gaza war is blossoming into the regional conflict with Iran that the Biden administration feared.
Western naval forces in the Red Sea were on guard for any retaliation from the Thursday (Jan 11) night airstrikes as Houthi leader Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi told tens of thousands of supporters in Sanaa that counterattacks were "imminent."
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