After months of Houthi attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, the United States and Britain and other allies including the Netherlands responded with a series of powerful airstrikes designed to severely degrade the Iranian-backed group’s capabilities. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up a week in the Middle East of meetings with Arab and Israeli leaders which included efforts to avert a widening regional conflict stemming from Israel’s war in Gaza... and about what comes next. Aaron David Miller, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace provides insights into the timing of the U.S. and UK response and what it will take to achieve peace on the ground. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wraps up meetings with Arab and Israeli leaders in efforts to avert a larger regional conflict and look to what comes next when Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza finally ends. Plus, Israel defends itself in hearings at the International Court of Justice on South Africa’s Israel's war in Gaza amounts to genocide. Omer Bartov, Samuel Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University provides insights. And extreme weather conditions could hamper voting for the presidential nominee choice in Iowa. VOA's Kane Farabaugh reports.