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Monday briefing: U.S. leads strikes in the Middle East

Also, devastating wildfires in Chile and Ukraine's implacable foe.
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Morning Briefing: Europe Edition

February 5, 2024

Good morning. We're covering a weekend of U.S.-led strikes in the Middle East, devastating wildfires in Chile and Ukraine's implacable foe.

I'd also like to say hello. I'll be writing this newsletter for the next few months, and I'm excited to explore the day's news with you.

Men carrying large weapons sit or stand in pickup trucks. Mountains are in the background.
Houthi tribesmen near Sana, Yemen. Khaled Abdullah/Reuters

U.S. hit targets in the Middle East

The U.S. launched scores of strikes against Iranian-backed militias in the Middle East over the weekend.

The latest one came yesterday in Yemen, where the U.S. military said it had destroyed an antiship cruise missile that belonged to Houthi militants. The U.S. and Britain hit 36 Houthi targets in northern Yemen on Saturday, a day after the U.S. carried out attacks on more than 85 targets in Syria and Iraq.

U.S. officials said that the strikes were carefully calibrated to avoid setting off a direct confrontation with Iran and that they hampered the militias' ability to hit U.S. forces. But the attacks risk the kind of escalation of hostilities that President Biden has sought to avoid since the war between Israel and Hamas began in October.

Background: The U.S.-led air and naval strikes began last month in response to Houthi drone and missile attacks that have upended commercial shipping in the Red Sea since November. The weekend's retaliation made good on President Biden's promise to respond to a recent drone attack that killed three American soldiers at a remote outpost in Jordan.

Context: The strikes took place as Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to the Middle East to push for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza and to secure more humanitarian aid for the battered enclave.

An overhead view of a neighborhood where nearly every home is burned down. Cars line a road curving through area.
The fires swept through central Chile's coastal hills. Cristóbal Olivares for The New York Times

Wildfires on Chile's coast killed at least 112

Officials said on Sunday that at least 112 people had been killed and hundreds were missing after wildfires ravaged entire neighborhoods on Chile's Pacific coast. The destruction began on Friday, when dozens of fires burned across central and southern Chile, amid what officials said were higher-than-normal temperatures for this time of year.

"We're standing before a tragedy of immense proportions," President Gabriel Boric said, adding that he expected the number of dead to "go up significantly."

Context: The cyclical climate phenomenon known as El Niño has exacerbated droughts and high temperatures through parts of South America, creating conditions that experts say are ripe for forest fires. Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela have also struggled recently to contain wildfires.

Quotable: "It was more like a nuclear bomb than a fire," said one man whose home was destroyed.

Three soldiers walking on a snowy road in front of a heavily shell-damaged 10-story building.
Ukrainian soldiers in Vuhledar, a Russian target in eastern Ukraine. Tyler Hicks/The New York Times

Ukraine resists a relentless foe

Ukrainian soldiers are outmanned, outgunned and fighting to hold on at the eastern front line against Russian forces that "do not stop," as one Ukrainian lieutenant put it.

Russia's attacks seek to overwhelm the Ukrainians with sheer mass. Even so, the price has been steep: More than 13,000 Russian soldiers were killed or wounded in two months of operations aimed at capturing the ruined Ukrainian city of Avdiivka in the eastern Donetsk region, with only marginal gains.

Related: U.S. senators released a plan yesterday for Ukraine funding tied to an immigration crackdown, but the bill faces long odds in a deeply divided Congress.

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