The British Ministry of Defense announced on Wednesday that the Royal Air Force participated in a joint air operation with US forces targeting a Houthi military facility in Yemen, in response to the group's repeated attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea.

The British Ministry of Defense said in a statement, as published by the British government, that the airstrike came after careful intelligence analysis identified a group of buildings located approximately 15 miles south of the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, used to manufacture drones of the type used to attack ships in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.