- US Green Berets are helping Saudi Arabia locate and destroy Iranian-backed Houthi ballistic missiles and launch sites in Yemen, according to The New York Times.
- About 12 Green Berets were deployed to the Saudi border with Yemen in late 2017 shortly after the Houthis fired a Burkan H-2 short-range ballistic missile at Riyadh, The Times reported.
- The Saudi-led coalition began striking the Shiite Muslim Houthis in Yemen in 2015 after the Houthis overthrew the government of President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi in 2014.
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Green Berets are reportedly helping Saudi Arabia destroy Houthi ballistic missiles in Yemen
About 12 Green Berets were deployed to the Saudi border with Yemen in late 2017 shortly after the Houthis fired a Burkan H-2 short-range ballistic missile at Riyadh, The New York Times reported.
US Green Berets are helping Saudi Arabia locate and destroy Iranian-backed Houthi ballistic missiles and launch sites in Yemen, according to The New York Times.
About 12 Green Berets were deployed to the Saudi border with Yemen in late 2017, but do not appear to have entered the country, The Times reported. They were deployed shortly after the Houthis fired a
The Saudi-led coalition has since been accused of conducting unlawful and indiscriminate airstrikes in Yemen, as well as blocking food, fuel, and medicine into the country. Images of emaciated Yemeni adults and children have abounded, and at least eight million people in Yemen are on the brink of famine and one million children are infected with cholera,accordingto Human Rights Watch.
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In a recent strike, the Saudi-led coalition hit a wedding
In late January, Germany and Norway announced that they would stop selling weapons to countries in the Saudi-led coalition over the war in Yemen.
Rankine-Galloway told Business Insider on Thursday that he could not confirm the Times report "about the deployment of special operations forces," but provided the following statement:
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