Trump says U.S. will stop bombing Houthis after group "capitulated"

Trump says U.S. volition halt bombing Houthis

Trump says U.S. volition halt bombing Houthis successful Yemen aft agreement 04:38

President Trump said Tuesday the U.S. subject volition "stop the bombing of the Houthis effectual immediately," announcing the Yemen-based militant radical had promised to extremity its run of strikes against American commercialized and subject vessels successful the Red Sea.

Details connected the statement stay sparse. He said the Houthis "capitulated" and "announced to america … that they don't privation to combat anymore," and the United States volition "take their word."

The Houthis person not commented publically connected the evident agreement.

"They've said, 'please don't weaponry america anymore and we're not going to onslaught your ships,'" Mr. Trump told reporters Tuesday during an Oval Office gathering with recently elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Oman's overseas ministry posted on X the 2 sides had reached a "ceasefire" brokered by Oman, which borders Yemen. "In the future, neither broadside volition people the other, including American vessels, successful the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait, ensuring state of navigation and the creaseless travel of planetary commercialized shipping," Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi said.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the agreement, sharing Albusaidi's post connected X and calling it a "Massive WIN."

The Houthis, an Iran-backed rebel group, person targeted ships successful the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea since 2023, disrupting important shipping lanes that pb to the Suez Canal. The radical frames the strikes arsenic a effect to Israeli subject enactment successful the Gaza Strip. 

The U.S. subject has responded successful caller weeks with a barrage of airstrikes connected Houthi targets successful Yemen, a strategy the Pentagon says has killed hundreds of Houthi militants.

Israel has also carried retired its own airstrikes connected the Houthis, including a acceptable of strikes earlier Tuesday, pursuing a Houthi rocket onslaught connected Israel's largest airport. The U.S. was not progressive successful Tuesday's strikes by Israel, officials said.

The Houthis' effect to those strikes did not bespeak a planned truce with the U.S.

"The Israeli and American aggression volition not walk without a effect and volition not deter Yemen from continuing its presumption successful enactment of Gaza," the group's governmental bureau said anterior to Mr. Trump's comments Tuesday, successful a connection carried connected its TV transmission al-Masirah.

Khaled Wassef contributed to this report.