A barrage of U.S., coalition and militant attacks in the Middle East over the last five days are compounding U.S. fears that Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza could expand, as massive military strikes failed to stall the assault on Red Sea shipping by Yemen-based Houthis.
Even as the U.S. and allies pummeled more than two dozen Iran-backed Houthi locations on Friday in retaliation for attacks on ships, the Houthis have continued their maritime assaults. And Tehran struck sites in Iraq and Syria, claiming to target an Israeli “spy headquarters,” then followed that Tuesday with reported missile and drone attacks in Pakistan.
The chaotic wave of attacks and reprisals involving the United States, its allies and foes suggested not only that last week’s assault had failed to deter the Houthis, but that the broader regional war that the U.S. has spent months trying to avoid was becoming closer to reality. And underscoring the gravity of the roiling situation, the Biden administration is expected to announce plans to redesignate the Houthis as global terrorists, according to people familiar with the decision who requested anonymity to discuss the matter ahead of its announcement.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A barrage of U.S., coalition and militant attacks in the Middle East over the last five days are compounding U.S. fears that Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza could expand, as massive military strikes failed to stall the assault on Red Sea shipping by Yemen-based Houthis.
The chaotic wave of attacks and reprisals involving the United States, its allies and foes suggested not only that last week’s assault had failed to deter the Houthis, but that the broader regional war that the U.S. has spent months trying to avoid was becoming closer to reality.
The Houthis have a choice to make.” But in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan warned that the expanding array of attacks mean that allies must “be vigilant against the possibility that in fact, rather than heading towards de-escalation, we are on a path of escalation that we have to manage.”
Ever since the devastating attack by Hamas on Israel on Oct. 7 triggered a massive air and ground campaign by Israeli forces, the U.S. and other allies have worried about it expanding to a broader regional war.
U.S. diplomatic and military officials have shuttled urgently across the Middle East, working to ease tensions but the enormous Palestinian death toll has fueled anger and is being touted as a reason for at least some of the attacks.
Amid the latest attacks, U.S. Navy SEALs seized Iranian-made missile parts and other weaponry from a ship bound for Yemen’s Houthi rebels in a raid last week that saw two of its commandos go missing, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
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At what point do you just take out the Iranian government and let the rest of the rats scurry away with their head cut off?
That worked out so well in Iraq and Afghanistan
Iran bombed Iraq and Pakistan. Pakistan already bombed Iran. Yemen insurgents are attacking shipping lanes, Israel is bombing Lebanon. It’s already a regional war.
Pakistan is not in the middle east. The targeting of the rebels in Balochistan by Iran is completely unrelated to the goings on in the middle east.
You also failed to include Israel bombing targets in Lebanon and Syria while carrying out a genocide in Gaza, which is wholly within the middle east.
I think it’s misguided to ignore the Pakistan strikes just because Pakistan isn’t technically in the Middle East. Pakistan is only 200 miles from Oman across the sea. I don’t think it’s a coincidence they struck Pakistan right after doing so in Iran and Syria.
Please tell me how the separatist movement in Balochistan is related to Syria.
It’s not directly, but it signals there is a new defense calculus in Tehran. It’s one thing to perform strikes in Syria, an ally, and against the Kurds that are regularly walked on. It’s another thing entirely that they’re willing to strike a nuclear power which to me indicates that they will be more assertive going forward. That posture will have real effects for nations in the Middle East.
You also failed to include Jordan bombing Syria… hot off the press.
Not to mention Syria killing bombing their own people and Turkey bombing “targets” in Syria and Iraq.
Sure. Just pointing out how a regional war doesn’t extend to the Indian subcontinent.
Do you have a point or did you just want to write a comment?
You said a regional war. Pakistan is not in the region.
Or maybe the relevant region is bigger, if Iran’s involved in both the battles to its west and its east?
Well please tell me how a separatist movement in Pakistan is related to what’s going on in Syria.
This is not something like the US expanding the Vietnam war into Cambodia. This would be like the US expanding the Vietnam war into India.
Pakistan is only 200 miles from Oman by the sea. It’s absolutely relevant if not the textbook definition of Middle East.
