The U.S. Navy helped French naval forces to intercept and seize thousands of assault rifles and a half-million rounds of ammunition headed to Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebels from Iran, officials said on Feb. 1.
In a statement, the U.S. military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said the confiscation occurred on Jan. 15 in the Gulf of Oman, along routes “historically used to traffic weapons unlawfully from Iran to Yemen.”
