US airstrikes on Houthi rebels ‘long overdue’

Former British commander Richard Kemp says US airstrikes on Houthi rebels are “long overdue”. President Donald Trump has announced that the United States has undertaken attacks on Houthi rebel targets in Yemen. “It’s long overdue that the attacks that we saw tonight … attacks quite severe by US airstrikes, including drones, I believe, against the Houthis,” Mr Kemp told Sky News Australia. “My understanding is that their target was against the Houthi leadership – they were trying to take out as many of the leaders as they could in this particular strike, which, I believe, is going to keep going on.”