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The US and UK this week launched joint airstrikes against Yemen Houthi rebels in the Red Sea, which is claimed to have killed at least five people in the region

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations has received a report of a missile attack 90 miles off the coast of Aden, Yemen, hours after US and UK airstrikes on Houthi rebel sites

Yemen's Houthis have said the US-led airstrikes would not go without "punishment or retaliation" after five of their fighters were killed in the overnight attacks

The Red Sea route is a crucial waterway, and Houthis attacks there have caused severe disruptions to global trade. Further attacks in the region could see a "tit-for-tat" retaliation towards the US

Here's everything you need to know about the conflict that has broken out in the Red Sea with British and US forces bombing sites in Yemen controlled by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels

The US and UK bombed more than a dozen sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen on Thursday, in a massive retaliatory strike

The UK joined US counterparts in carrying out airstrikes at around midnight last night against Houthi rebels in Yemen who have attacked commercial shipping in the Red Sea

The US and UK are now launching strikes against Yemen's Houthi rebel force in the Red Sea, after dozens of attacks on trade ships in the last two months

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak held an emergency call with his Cabinet tonight to brief ministers on the situation after attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea in recent days

The Pentagon has said it is aware of an attack on the USS Carney - an American warship - along with other commercial vessels in the Red Sea

The Yemeni Houthi rebels - a Tehran-backed Shi'a militia - confirmed that they had sezied control over the ship due to its connection with Israel before taking 52 seamen and women hostage in the Red Sea