Houthis Vow To Ramp Up Attacks on American Ships in Red Sea in Response to Trump’s Strikes on Yemen
‘The Yemeni Armed Forces will not hesitate to target all American warships in the Red Sea and in the Arabian Sea in retaliation to the aggression against our country,’ the Houthis said in a statement.
Houthis leaders in Yemen are claiming that they attacked an American aircraft carrier, the USS Harry Truman, in response to the Trump administration’s widespread air strikes in the country overnight Saturday, and are pledging more such attacks unless America backs off on the assaults.
A source at the Department of Defense told the New York Sun on Sunday that they have received no reports from American forces about an attack in the area of the Truman. The Houthis have in the past routinely made such assertions and many of them turn out to be sheer fantasy.
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