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At least 19 were killed as U.S. President Donald Trump launched large-scale military strikes against Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis on Saturday over the group's attacks against Red Sea shipping, warning "hell will rain down" on them if they do not stop.
Trump also warned Iran, the Houthis' main backer, that it needed to immediately halt support for the group. He said if Iran threatened the United States, "America will hold you fully accountable and, we won't be nice about it!"

The unfolding strikes - which one official said would last days and maybe weeks - represent the biggest U.S. military operation in the Middle East since Trump took office in January. It came as the United States ramps up sanctions pressure on Tehran while trying to bring it to the negotiating table over its nuclear program.
At least 13 civilians were killed and nine injured in U.S. strikes on Yemen's capital Sanaa, according to the Houthi-run health ministry.

Six others, including four children and one woman, were killed and 11 were injured in a U.S. strike on the northern province of Saada, the Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV reported.
The Houthis' political bureau described the attacks as a "war crime."
"Our Yemeni armed forces are fully prepared to respond to escalation with escalation," it said in a statement.
Residents in Sanaa said the strikes hit a building in a Houthi stronghold.

"The explosions were violent and shook the neighborhood like an earthquake. They terrified our women and children," one of the residents, who gave his name as Abdullah Yahia, told Reuters.
The Houthis, an armed movement that took control of most of Yemen over the past decade, have launched more than 100 attacks targeting shipping since November 2023, disrupting global commerce and setting the U.S. military on a costly campaign to intercept missiles and drones that burned through stocks of U.S. air defenses.

The Houthis say the attacks are in solidarity with Palestinians over Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza.
Iran's other allies, Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, have been severely weakened by Israel since the start of the Gaza conflict. Syria's Bashar al-Assad, who was closely aligned with Tehran, was overthrown by rebels in December.
But throughout, Yemen's Houthis have remained resilient and often on the offensive, sinking two vessels, seizing another and killing at least four seafarers in an offensive that disrupted global shipping, forcing firms to re-route to longer and more expensive journeys around southern Africa.
The U.S. administration of former President Joe Biden had sought to degrade the Houthis' ability to attack vessels off its coast but limited the U.S. actions.

The strikes on Saturday were carried out in part by fighter aircraft from the Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, which is in the Red Sea, officials said.
The U.S. military's Central Command, which oversees troops in the Middle East, described Saturday's strikes as the start of a large-scale operation across Yemen.
"Houthi attacks on American ships & aircraft (and our troops!) will not be tolerated; and Iran, their benefactor, is on notice," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote on X. "Freedom of Navigation will be restored."
Trump held out the prospect of far more devastating military action against Yemen.
"The Houthi attack on American vessels will not be tolerated. We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective," Trump wrote.
Iran's mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

On Tuesday, the Houthis said they would resume attacks on Israeli ships passing through the Red Sea and Arabian Sea, the Bab al-Mandab Strait and the Gulf of Aden, ending a period of relative calm starting in January with the Gaza ceasefire.
The U.S. attacks came just days after a letter to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei from Trump was delivered, seeking talks over Iran's nuclear program.
Khamenei on Wednesday rejected holding negotiations with the United States.
Still, Tehran is increasingly concerned that mounting public anger over economic hardships could erupt into mass protests, four Iranian officials told Reuters.

Last year, Israeli strikes on Iranian facilities, including missile factories and air defenses, in retaliation for Iranian missile and drone attacks, reduced Tehran's conventional military capabilities, according to U.S. officials.
Iran has denied wanting to develop a nuclear weapon. However, it is dramatically accelerating enrichment of uranium to up to 60% purity, close to the roughly 90% weapons-grade level, the U.N. nuclear watchdog - the International Atomic Energy Agency - has warned.
Western states say there is no need to enrich uranium to such a high level under any civilian program and that no other country has done so without producing nuclear bombs. Iran says its nuclear program is peaceful. Iran has denied wanting to develop a nuclear weapon.

Botragelad:
It's pretty funny how confused Islamic terrorists are. These same Houthis have been attacking US, Israel ships and random vessels passing through the Red Sea, claiming it's because they have ties to Israel. For months, they've been spewing propaganda and religious nonsense noise. But when they get hit back, they suddenly start whining to the media.

Watch, they'll start screaming 'genocide' and releasing photos of women and children. If they really cared about civilians, they wouldn't have started the attack in the first place. You can't attack my people and ships, then tell me when to stop. I can defend myself, and that's not aggression. That's the classic trait of Islamic terrorists, attack, get retaliated against, then play the victim.
They really think their deity will save them from Israel or US airstrikes! Well, it won't. If the Houthi part of Yemen gets leveled today, that'd be a win for humanity.

Ofodirinwa:
The main problem with Donald Trump is he won't shut up and relax. Everyday something new, loud and useless.

Botragelad:
Sorry, what's useless about eliminating Islamic terrorists?

Botragelad:
It's pretty funny how confused Islamic terrorists are. These same Houthis have been attacking US, Israel ships and random vessels passing through the Red Sea, claiming it's because they have ties to Israel. For months, they've been spewing propaganda and religious nonsense noise. But when they get hit back, they suddenly start whining to the media.

Watch, they'll start screaming 'genocide' and releasing photos of women and children. If they really cared about civilians, they wouldn't have started the attack in the first place. You can't attack my people and ships, then tell me when to stop. I can defend myself, and that's not aggression. That's the classic trait of Islamic terrorists, attack, get retaliated against, then play the victim.
They really think their deity will save them from Israel or US airstrikes! Well, it won't. If the Houthi part of Yemen gets leveled today, that'd be a win for humanity.

Asonaijaaso:
The Houthis view themselves not as rogue actors, but as guardians of Islamic solidarity—particularly when Arab regimes normalize ties with Israel while Gaza burns. From their perspective:
• Moral Obligation: They believe silence = complicity. To them, defending Palestine is not an option but a Quranic duty.
• Pan-Islamic Resistance: They see Gaza as part of a broader Ummah under siege, aligning themselves with a resistance axis (Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas).
• Asymmetric Deterrence: With no air force or navy, Houthis use Red Sea disruption as non-lethal pressure—targeting commerce, not civilians.
• Neglected Frontline: With other Arab states muzzled or pacified, the Houthis claim the mantle of active resistance left behind by wealthier nations.
• Martyrdom Culture: Their ideology romanticizes standing with the oppressed—Palestinians symbolize that to them.

Akinpresident:
Apart from wars, terrorism and violence, there's nothing else to learn from the Quran?
They're always the first to attack before they meet retaliation, yet they make noise the most.

Botragelad:
It's pretty funny how confused Islamic terrorists are. These same Houthis have been attacking US, Israel ships and random vessels passing through the Red Sea, claiming it's because they have ties to Israel. For months, they've been spewing propaganda and religious nonsense noise. But when they get hit back, they suddenly start whining to the media.

Watch, they'll start screaming 'genocide' and releasing photos of women and children. If they really cared about civilians, they wouldn't have started the attack in the first place. You can't attack my people and ships, then tell me when to stop. I can defend myself, and that's not aggression. That's the classic trait of Islamic terrorists, attack, get retaliated against, then play the victim.
They really think their deity will save them from Israel or US airstrikes! Well, it won't. If the Houthi part of Yemen gets leveled today, that'd be a win for humanity.

givedemwotowoto:
The language of peace in the Middle East if force!

madridguy:
Terrorist? Stop the genocide and allow aid into Gaza and the Houthis attacks will stop.

How hard is that to understand.

madridguy:
Terrorist? Stop the genocide and allow aid into Gaza and the Houthis attacks will stop.

How hard is that to understand.

Asonaijaaso:

The assertion that the Houthis are simply confused, whining religious extremists conveniently playing victim after starting a war lacks the necessary geopolitical depth and moral consistency. To begin with, what the Houthis are doing is not unique—they are asymmetrically retaliating in a world where formal military tools and statehood are luxuries they don’t possess. They aren’t attacking random ships arbitrarily. The majority of their naval operations have targeted vessels they allege are linked to Israel or allies actively participating in the Gaza conflict. You may disagree with their methods, but that’s not terrorism—it’s economic warfare, a tool often used by nations with far more power and legitimacy, including the U.S. and Israel themselves.

Claiming they deserve to be “wiped out” just because they resist reflects the very kind of dehumanization we criticize in acts of terrorism. That logic—obliteration of millions because of political or ideological defiance—is genocidal by every moral and legal definition. Furthermore, when critics say Houthis hide among civilians or whine about airstrikes after firing first, they overlook a critical truth: urban resistance movements don’t have the option of clean battlefields. Yemen’s landscape is made of villages, cities, and people—not military bases. Every state and non-state actor uses propaganda, including Western powers; so when the Houthis publish images of dead children, it’s not just manipulation—it’s documentation, just as Western media showed 9/11, or Ukraine shows the aftermath of Russian strikes.

Mocking their belief in divine justice is not just dismissive—it’s irrelevant to any logical military argument. Millions around the world rely on spiritual frameworks to endure suffering. That doesn’t make their lives expendable. If resistance to perceived genocide justifies their fight, and your solution is to annihilate them completely, then you’re not describing justice—you’re participating in the cycle of terror you claim to oppose.

Botragelad:
Talk to me when you learn to express yourself independently

madridguy:
Israel stopped food from entering Gaza in violation of the ceasefire conditions. The Houthis have declared a blockade on Israel in return.

Why is America fighting Israel’s wars?i think Trump is also making the same mistake Biden made too.

Let wait for the Houthis response.

Botragelad:
Talk to me when you learn to express yourself independently