US hits Yemen Sanaa LIVE updates: No less than 21 killed as Trump points new warning to Iran-backed Houthi rebels
Houthi assaults…is not going to be tolerated: U.S. Secretary
Earlier this month, the USA reclassified the Houthi motion as a “international terrorist organisation”, banning any U.S. interplay with it.
“Continued Houthi assaults on U.S. army and industrial delivery vessels within the Purple Sea is not going to be tolerated,” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio informed his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, in keeping with the State Division.
Moscow is near Tehran, which helps the Houthis.
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell stated the Houthis had “attacked U.S. warships 174 occasions and industrial vessels 145 occasions since 2023”.
The Houthis captured Sanaa in 2014 and had been poised to overrun many of the remainder of the nation earlier than a Saudi-led coalition intervened.
– AFP
