Why are there airstrikes in Yemen?

The Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed rebels in Yemen said Sunday that it had launched a new air campaign on Yemen’s capital and other provinces, in retaliation for a series of missile and drone strikes targeting key military and oil facilities across Saudi Arabia.

Did Yemen attack Saudi?

They also launched numerous cross-border attacks on Saudi Arabia. The attack on Saudi Arabia came just days after days after missiles and drones slammed into a key military base in Yemen’s south, killing at least 30 Saudi-backed Yemeni troops.

How many Muslims are there in Yemen?

24.02 million
Definitions

STAT	AMOUNT	RANK
Major religion(s)	Islam
Muslim percentage of total population	99\%	7th out of 184
Muslim population	24.02 million	17th out of 177
Religions	Muslim including Shaf’i (Sunni) and Zaydi (Shia), small numbers of Jewish, Christian, and Hindu

How many US airstrikes are in Yemen?

eight United States airstrikes
This statistic shows the number of U.S. airstrikes in Yemen from 2002 to 2019. In 2019 there were eight United States airstrikes in Yemen….Number of United States airstrikes in Yemen between 2002 and 2019.

Characteristic	Number of airstrikes
2019	8
2018	35
2017	125
2016	44

Who is responsible for Yemen war?

The Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen is an intervention launched by Saudi Arabia on 26 March 2015, leading a coalition of nine countries from West Asia and North Africa, responding to calls from the president of Yemen Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi for military support after he was ousted by the Houthi movement, despite …