{"id":550411,"date":"2026-03-28T12:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T12:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/550411\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T12:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T12:39:11","slug":"iran-us-war-latest-yemens-tehran-backed-houthi-rebels-launch-first-missile-attack-on-israel-since-war-began","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/550411\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran-US war latest: Yemen\u2019s Tehran-backed Houthi rebels launch first missile attack on Israel since war began"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"#post-2349809\" class=\"sc-1wyow5i-1 eSNdzi\"><\/a>Kuwait airport suffers &#8216;significant&#8217; radar system damage in Iranian drone attacks<\/p>\n<p>Kuwait International Airport was targeted by multiple drone attacks that caused significant damage to its radar system but resulted in no casualties, state news agency KUNA said on Saturday, citing the country&#8217;s Civil Aviation Authority.<\/p>\n<p>The authority&#8217;s spokesperson later said the attacks were carried out by Iran, its proxies, and the armed factions it supports.<\/p>\n<p>Maira Butt28 March 2026 12:00<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#post-2349815\" class=\"sc-1wyow5i-1 eSNdzi\"><\/a>Israeli strike on media car in south Lebanon kills two broadcast journalists, says Al Manar TV<\/p>\n<p>An Israeli strike on a media car in southern Lebanon has reportedly killed two broadcast journalists, according to Al Manar TV as reported by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request by Reuters for comment on the reports.<\/p>\n<p>Maira Butt28 March 2026 11:50<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#post-2349813\" class=\"sc-1wyow5i-1 eSNdzi\"><\/a>Ukraine&#8217;s foreign ministry denies reports that Iran &#8216;destroyed&#8217; air defence depot<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s foreign ministry has denied reports that Iran has \u201cdestroyed\u201d an air defence depot in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, we reported that Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had destroyed a Ukrainian air defence depot in Dubai on Saturday, according to the Fars news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Maira Butt28 March 2026 11:36<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#post-2349807\" class=\"sc-1wyow5i-1 eSNdzi\"><\/a>Watch: Yemen\u2019s Houthi military spokesman claims responsibility for missile attack on Israel<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/missile\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">missile<\/a> attack on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/israel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israel<\/a> in a statement broadcast on their media on Saturday (28 March).<\/p>\n<p>Brigadier General Yahya Saree, the group\u2019s military spokesman, said the barrage targeted \u201csensitive Israeli military sites\u201d in southern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/israel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israel<\/a> and was coordinated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/operations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">operations<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/iran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a>-backed fighters in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>The video statement marks the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/houthis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houthis<\/a>\u2019 first public confirmation of involvement in the ongoing Israeli-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/us\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/war\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">war<\/a> against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/iran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/news\/iran-war-yemen-houthi-missile-attack-israel-b2947547.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Yemen\u2019s Houthi military spokesman claims responsibility for missile attack on Israel<\/p>\n<p>Maira Butt28 March 2026 11:15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#post-2349796\" class=\"sc-1wyow5i-1 eSNdzi\"><\/a>Iran&#8217;s president says trust needed for talks, says Pakistan<\/p>\n<p>Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has told Pakistan&#8217;s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif that trust is needed to facilitate talks and mediation on the conflict in the Middle East, the prime minister&#8217;s office said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>It said Pezeshkian had praised Pakistan&#8217;s diplomatic efforts and that the two leaders had discussed hostilities in the region and efforts to end the conflict during a call that lasted over an hour. Sharif briefed Pezeshkian on Pakistan&#8217;s diplomatic contacts with the United States and Gulf states, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has been leading negotiations between the warring nations as the Gulf countries who had originally been mediating discussions found themselves embroiled in rebuffing Iranian attacks on sites within their borders. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ASI-GEN_IR\u00c1N-EEUU-PAKIST\u00c1N-QU\u00c9_SABER__6966.jpg\"  loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE\"\/>(AP)<\/p>\n<p>Maira Butt28 March 2026 10:55<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#post-2349797\" class=\"sc-1wyow5i-1 eSNdzi\"><\/a>Breaking: Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guard says missiles &#8216;destroyed&#8217; Ukrainian air defence depot in Dubai, says Fars news agency<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has destroyed a Ukrainian air defence depot in Dubai on Saturday, according to the Fars news agency. <\/p>\n<p>Maira Butt28 March 2026 10:44<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#post-2349793\" class=\"sc-1wyow5i-1 eSNdzi\"><\/a>Trump \u2018has no military way out of war and Iran has better cards\u2019: Experts warn 15 point peace plan is doomed to fail<\/p>\n<p>Rubbishing the plan this week, Iranian officials described the conditions as \u201cexcessive\u201d, \u201cmaximalist\u201d and \u201cunreasonable\u201d. Senior officials who reviewed the proposal felt<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/iran-donald-trump-tehran-strait-of-hormuz-isfahan-b2945889.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> it only served US and Israeli interests<\/a>, a source told Reuters, though adding that diplomacy is still on the table.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts have told The Independent that despite US boasts of success, the war will not be ended militarily and one month since the conflict began Iran feels it has the upper hand.<\/p>\n<p>Maira Butt28 March 2026 10:35<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#post-2349752\" class=\"sc-1wyow5i-1 eSNdzi\"><\/a>In Photos: In Pictures: Israel hits Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Smoke-rises-after-a-reported-Israeli-airstrike-amid-escalating-hostilities-between-Israel-and-Hezbol.jpeg\"  loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Smoke rises after a reported Israeli airstrike, amid escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, as the US-Israeli conflict with Iran continues, in the southern suburbs of Beirut\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE\"\/>Smoke rises after a reported Israeli airstrike, amid escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, as the US-Israeli conflict with Iran continues, in the southern suburbs of Beirut (REUTERS)<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The-moon-illuminates-the-sky-above-Beiruts-southern-suburbs-amid-escalating-hostilities-between-Isra.jpeg\"  loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The moon illuminates the sky above Beirut's southern suburbs, amid escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, as the US-Israeli conflict with Iran continues, in Lebanon\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE\"\/>The moon illuminates the sky above Beirut&#8217;s southern suburbs, amid escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, as the US-Israeli conflict with Iran continues, in Lebanon (REUTERS)<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Smoke-and-fog-after-reported-Israeli-airstrikes-amid-escalating-hostilities-between-Israel-and-Hezbo.jpeg\"  loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Smoke and fog after reported Israeli airstrikes, amid escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, as the US-Israeli conflict with Iran continues, in the southern suburbs of Beirut\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE\"\/>Smoke and fog after reported Israeli airstrikes, amid escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, as the US-Israeli conflict with Iran continues, in the southern suburbs of Beirut (REUTERS)<\/p>\n<p>Vishwam Sankaran28 March 2026 10:15<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#post-2349794\" class=\"sc-1wyow5i-1 eSNdzi\"><\/a>Tehran threatens to retaliate with &#8216;decisive and crushing&#8217; response if infrastructure targeted<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s president Masoud Pezeshkian has threatened to deliver a \u201cdecisive and crushing response\u201d if Tehran\u2019s key infrastructure and economic centres are targeted by the US and Israel. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have repeatedly stated that Iran does not carry out preemptive attacks, but in response to attacks on infrastructure and economic centers, we will deliver a decisive and crushing response to the aggressor enemy,\u201d Pezeshkian wrote on X on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the countries of the region, I say: if you seek development and security, do not allow our common enemies to orchestrate the war from your territories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/China_SCO_Parade_Guests_36990.jpg\"  loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"China SCO Parade Guests\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE\"\/>China SCO Parade Guests<\/p>\n<p>Maira Butt28 March 2026 10:02<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#post-2349792\" class=\"sc-1wyow5i-1 eSNdzi\"><\/a>Who are the Houthi rebels? And why experts are worried their involvement will be worse for shipping chaos <\/p>\n<p>The Houthis, formed in the late 1990s, developed as political-religious Shia movement and launched a series of guerrilla wars against Yemen\u2019s national army upon conception. <\/p>\n<p>The rebels have developed an arsenal including ballistic missiles and armed drones capable of hitting Israel more than 1,000 miles from Sana\u2019a. <\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the rebel group launched its first sustained attacks on ships passing through the Red Sea claiming it was in retaliation for Israel\u2019s attacks on Gaza. The onslaught disrupted global trade by striking the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, which is a narrow strip of sea between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/yemen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yemen<\/a> and east Africa that is a key international trade route. <\/p>\n<p>Experts say the Houthis, along with Gaza\u2019s Hamas and Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah, form part of Iran\u2019s \u201caxis of resistance\u201d &#8211; a military alliance built over four decades to oppose Israeli and American power in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Maira Butt28 March 2026 09:45<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kuwait airport suffers &#8216;significant&#8217; radar system damage in Iranian drone attacks Kuwait International Airport was targeted by multiple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-550411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}