US President Donald Trump announces that the United States will immediately end its bombing campaign against the Houthis, saying the Iran-backed rebels in Yemen informed the administration “they don’t want to fight anymore.”
“We will honor that and we still stop the bombings,” Trump tells reporters in the Oval Office, claiming the Houthis “capitulated.”
“We will take their word. They say they will not be blowing up ships anymore, and that was the purpose of what we’ve been doing,” he continues. “I think that’s very positive. They were knocking out of a lot of ships sailing beautifully down the various seas.”
Trump also stresses that the US “will stop the bombing of the Houthis effective immediately.”
He doesn’t mention Israel in his remarks or whether the Houthis also agreed to halt attacks on the Jewish state and targets they claim have Israeli links.
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