Sanaa, April 24 -- At least one person was wounded and several houses were damaged in fresh U.S. airstrikes on Yemen's Houthi-held capital Sanaa on Thursday, witnesses and Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported.

Witnesses said that one of the airstrikes hit the front yard of a house in the residential neighborhood of al-Jiraf al-Sharki in northern Sanaa, wounding the person inside the house and causing damage to several adjacent houses.

Also on Thursday morning, the U.S. Central Command confirmed its airstrikes, saying in a post on social media that the continuous operations against Iran-backed Houthis were launched from U.S. aircraft carriers.

The fresh U.S. airstrikes came a day following the Houthis' fresh ballistic missile and drone at...