The US Used a $2bn Stealth Bomber on the Houthis... And More

In our lead story today, we turn our attention to the skies over Yemen, where a month-long air intervention against the country's Houthi rebel organization has taken a turn for the symbolic.

This past week, one of the most advanced warplanes in the entire world was d usted off to buttake in its first known combat operations in nearly a decade, against an adversary for whom its presence was the highest form of overkill. The precision strikes came in the early morning hours, local time of Thursday, October 17.

Drawing over the skies of western Yemen, where the Iran-backed Houthi rebel organization holds a large portion of the country's territory, at least two highly sophisticated B-2 bombers began an attack run.