Trump Orders Military Strikes on Houthi Terrorists

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The strikes occurred on the same day U.S.-led joint forces killed a deputy leader of ISIS, Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai.

President Donald Trump announced on March 15 that he ordered the U.S. military to “launch decisive and powerful” action against Houthi terrorists in Yemen.

The aerial attacks, which he said are to restore navigational freedom, are already ongoing and are occurring days after the Houthis said they will resume attacks on Israeli ships passing near Yemen in response to the halt in aid reaching Gaza.

“The Houthi attack on American vessels will not be tolerated. We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

“The Houthis have choked off shipping in one of the most important Waterways of the World, grinding vast swaths of Global Commerce to a halt, and attacking the core principle of Freedom of Navigation upon which International Trade and Commerce depends.”

The Houthis reported a series of explosions in their territory Saturday evening.

The president moved to redesignate the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization on Jan. 22 in an executive order that directed the State Department to submit a report on the proposed designation. The terrorist designation was formalized on March 4.

The Iran-backed Yemen-based organization has launched attacks on more than 100 vessels from multiple countries using missiles and drones, sinking two vessels and killing four sailors in the process, between the start of Israel’s war with Hamas in October 2023 through January 2025.

In November 2024, two American warships in the Red Sea, the USS Stockdale and the USS Spruance, successfully intercepted Houthi-launched missiles and drones aimed at them. The Houthis claimed to have been targeting another U.S. vessel, the USS Abraham Lincoln.

Trump cited those recent attacks in his Truth Social post, blaming former President Joe Biden for allowing the attacks to persist.

“Joe Biden’s response was pathetically weak, so the unrestrained Houthis just kept going,” he said. ”It has been over a year since a U.S. flagged commercial ship safely sailed through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, or the Gulf of Aden.”

By T.J. Muscaro

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