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The United States first began conducting strikes against the Huthis during the Biden administration in response to the rebels' attacks on shipping, and US forces launched a renewed air campaign against them on March 15.

From Barron's • Dec. 3, 2025

Another is the USS Stockdale, a guided-missile destroyer often described as one of the military’s most battle-tested vessels for its deployment to the Red Sea to counter Yemen’s Houthi rebels’ harassment of commercial shipping lanes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

Was the rebels’ entry into the capital a surprise for Maidani?

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2024

The rebels' last stronghold was in Aleppo and Idlib provinces, which border Turkey and where more than four million people were living, many of them displaced from government-held areas.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2024

The Marines rushed before us on the cross-street, following upon the rebels’ heels.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson