CNN News:美驱逐舰打击也门胡塞武装雷达站 伊拉克宣布打响摩苏尔之战
Other countries are involved, too. Iran supports the Houthi rebels. Saudi Arabia and some other nearby nations support the Yemeni government.
Part of the reason why global tensions are heating up over Yemen, an American warship in the Red Sea has apparently been targeted several times from missiles that the U.S. says were launched from Houthi controlled parts of Yemen. They've all missed the USS Mason, but the ship responded last week by launching missiles of its own aimed at three Houthi radar sites. America believes these sites were used to target the USS Mason.
第一则新闻,本周一,联合国、美国和英国均呼吁也门立即实施停火。去年,胡塞武装和中东国家也门的政府军爆发冲突,胡塞反对派驱逐了政府军支持的也门总统。
其他国家也牵扯进这场冲突中。伊朗支持胡赛武装。而沙特阿拉伯和周围其他国家则支持也门政府。
也门问题导致全球紧张局势激化,一艘在红海航行的美国军舰多次遭遇导弹袭击,美国称导弹是从也门胡赛武装控制区发射的。这些导弹并未击中“梅森号”驱逐舰,但是上周,这艘军舰向胡赛武装的三个雷达站发射导弹进行了回击。美国认为这些雷达站是用来瞄准“梅森号”驱逐舰的。
Next story, the Iraqi air force dropped thousands of leaflets over the Iraqi city of Mosul this weekend. Their message: don't panic but stay at home, seal up your windows and doors, and avoid the ISIS terrorists who control Mosul. The reason: forces lead by Iraq and supported by the U.S. were advancing toward the city. The background: ISIS took over Mosul in 2014.
Today, it is ISIS's last stronghold in Iraq. For more than 15 months, Iraqi forces have been getting ready for the battle to take Mosul back.
But a cnn correspondent in Iraq says it's likely to be a messy and prolong fight. In advance of it, witnesses said on Sunday that airstrikes destroyed one of the main bridges leading to Mosul
下则新闻,本周末,伊拉克空军向伊拉克城市摩苏尔空投了数千张传单。传单信息:不要恐慌,但一定要待在家里,封好门窗,躲开控制摩苏尔的ISIS恐怖分子。原因:由伊拉克领导、美国支持的部队正在向该城市进军。背景:ISIS于2014年占领了摩苏尔市。
现在,摩苏尔是ISIS在伊拉克最大的据点。超过15个月以来,伊拉克军队一直在为夺回摩苏尔作准备。
但是cnn驻伊拉克的一名记者表示,这很可能成为一场混乱的持久战。在此之前,目击者表示,周日的空袭行动摧毁了一座通往摩苏尔的主要桥梁。