内容摘要：Participants compete in the men’s downhill race category of the traditional annual Cheese Rolling contest at Cooper’s Hill in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England, Monday, May 26, 2025.(AP Photo/Anthony Upton)

Participants compete in the men’s downhill race category of the traditional annual Cheese Rolling contest at Cooper’s Hill in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England, Monday, May 26, 2025.(AP Photo/Anthony Upton)

campaign comes after the Houthis’ threatened toover the country’s refusal to allow aid into the Gaza Strip.

The Houthis targeted over 100 merchant vessels with missiles and drones,and killing four sailors during their campaign targeting ships from November 2023, weeks after the war in Gaza began, until January of this year. Trump has said restoring the flow of commercial shipping through the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait connecting them is a priority.During the Biden administration, the U.S. military’s Central Command, which oversees Mideast operations, offered details to the public on most strikes conducted during the campaign. Those details often included the target struck and the reason. Since the start of the new campaign, however, there’s been no similar breakdowns released by Central Command.

The U.K.-based group Airwars believes it is likely that at least five U.S. strikes hurt or killed civilians, based off of videos and photos from the site, Houthi statements and other details. The U.S. military has not acknowledged any civilian casualties since the strikes began over a week ago.It declined to answer questions regarding possible civilian casualties, but said the “Houthis continue to communicate lies and disinformation.”

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A woman walks down an alley in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sunday, March 10, 2024. Officials in Saudi Arabia have declared the start of the fasting month of Ramadan after sighting the crescent moon Sunday night. The announcement marks the beginning of Ramadan for many of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)A woman walks down an alley in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sunday, March 10, 2024. Officials in Saudi Arabia have declared the start of the fasting month of Ramadan after sighting the crescent moon Sunday night. The announcement marks the beginning of Ramadan for many of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

In the Kenyan town of Malindi, a woman whose religious sect was targeted withorchestrated by its leader, retreats into a thatched house after disclosing her ordeal.