 Footage released by the US Central Command showed US jets taking off from a carrier to conduct strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen. The US led airstrikes on Yemen's Houthi rebels over their attacks on shipping and the Red Sea pulled the world's focus on Friday back on the years-long war raging in the Arab world's poorest nation. Even a shipping across the wider Mideast remains threatened.As the bombing lit the pre-dawn sky over multiple sites held by the Iranian-backed rebels, Saudi Arabia. Quickly sought to distance itself from the attacks as it seeks to maintain a delicate detente with Iran and a ceasefire in the Yemen war from which it hopes to finally withdraw, meanwhile, the US Navy acknowledged an attack days earlier on a ship in the far reaches of the Indian Ocean, an attack that may signal Iran's willingness to strike vessels as part of a wider maritime campaign over Israel's war on Hamas and the Gaza Strip. Tehran on Thursday separately seized another tanker involved in an earlier crisis over America's seizing oil targeted by international sanctions on the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.It remained unclear how extensive the damage was, though the Houthis said at least five sites including airfields had been attacked.