For today, links to reports from Reuters and the Associated Press and to commentary from the Washington Post and Declassified UK; other articles are accessible by clicking on their sources’ names or initials below. (GAZA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE and HERE.) — MCM

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Iranian and Hezbollah commanders help direct Houthi attacks in Yemen, by Samia Nakhoul and Parisa Hafezi | Reuters DUBAI– Commanders from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Lebanon’s Hezbollah group are on the ground in Yemen helping to direct and oversee Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping, four regional and two Iranian sources told Reuters. Iran — which has armed, trained and funded the Houthis — stepped up . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM JAN. 17  Yemen’s Houthi rebels attack a U.S.-owned ship in the Gulf of Aden with bomb-carrying drone, by Jon Gambrell | AP  JERUSALEM — A U.S.-owned ship in the Gulf of Aden came under attack Wednesday from a bomb-carrying drone launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, officials said. The attack on the Genco Picardy represented . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM JAN. 16  The Houthis sink an arrow into the West’s Achilles’ heel, by David Ignatius | The Washington Post   The Houthis are a tribal militia in a faraway country that many Americans couldn’t identify on a map. But they have . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM JAN. 12  Bombing Yemen as British as afternoon tea, by Mark Curtis | Declassified UK / Consortium News  UK air strikes on the Houthis in Yemen – who have dared to challenge Western support for Israel over Gaza – are taking place exactly 60 years after a brutal British bombing campaign in the country. The so-called Radfan revolt of early 1964 in modern-day Yemen . . . READ MORE . . .