Australia supports US and UK airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen
by Ben Doherty and Josh Butler from World news | The Guardian on (#6HSRG)
ADF personnel involved in non-operational role, sources say, with strikes in retaliation to Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping
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Australia has supported the US and UK militaries as they launched more than a dozen airstrikes against sites used by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen.
The US president, Joe Biden, confirmed the strikes, which are the most significant military response to the Houthis' campaign of drone and missile attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea.
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