Houthi deputy intelligence chief arrested on suspicion of providing coordinates to the U.S. 

Against the backdrop of the recent precision attacks by the United States against Houthi terrorist targets in Yemen, the Houthis arrested the deputy head of their intelligence service on charges of providing information to the "enemy," the Saudi Al-Hadath channel reported Tuesday morning.

According to the report, the Houthis arrested Abd al-Qader al-Shami, the deputy head of the terrorist organization's security and intelligence service, on charges of leaking the coordinates of the pro-Iranian militia's locations.

This comes against the backdrop of another targeted attack on a vehicle in which Houthi leaders were staying in Al-Juba, south of the ambush (about 170 km east of the capital Sana'a), and after the Houthis announced earlier the assassination of the commander of the Houthi intelligence apparatus, Abd al-Nasser al-Kamali, following the US strikes in Yemen.

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told Prime Minister Sudani in a phone call on March 16, shortly after the American strikes on the Houthis began, to prevent the militias carrying out revenge attacks on Israel and US bases in the region in support of their allies, according to two government officials and two security sources briefed on the exchange.