Key Takeaways
- U.S. President Donald Trump vows to continue strikes on Yemen’s Houthis until they stop threatening U.S. ships.
- The US and Houthis are at odds due to the Houthis’ attacks on US ships, which the US sees as a threat to their national security.
- The situation in Yemen is tense, with the US launching airstrikes on the Houthis in response to their attacks on US ships.
Washington: U.S. President Donald Trump vowed on Monday that strikes on Yemen’s Houthis will continue until they are no longer a threat to U.S. ships.
“The choice for the Houthis is clear: Stop shooting at U.S. ships, and we will stop shooting at you,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform, declaring that the Houthis had been “decimated” by “relentless” strikes over the past two weeks.
Trump’s threat came as his administration battles a scandal after a text chat was leaked involving senior security officials on the Yemen strikes.
The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg accidentally released a chat between Trump’s national security team on Signal, a commercial messaging app, last week. The chat discussed the airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthis.
Tensions between the Houthis and the U.S. military have escalated since Washington launched fresh airstrikes on Yemen on March 15.
