For today, links to a report from the Anadolu Agency and to commentary from Indian Punchline; other articles are accessible by clicking on their name below. (SYRIA, WEST BANK, GAZA, LEBANON and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll up or down. YEMEN 3-20-25 entry is HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM

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Yemen’s Houthis report fresh U.S. airstrikes on Al-Hudaydah airport, Marib province, by Yusuf Alioglu and Rania Abu Shamala | Anadolu Agency  ISTANBUL — The Houthi group said Saturday that new U.S. airstrikes targeted the Al Hudaydah International Airport in western Yemen and Marib province in the east. READ MORE . . .

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FROM MARCH 17  Trump hypes up tensions with Iran, by M.K. Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline  On March 15, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon “to launch a decisive and powerful military operation” against the Houthis of Yemen with “overwhelming lethal force” in the most significant military action of his second term, to date. The two days of U.S. attacks on the Yemeni capital Sanaa and other areas . . . READ MORE . . .

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