Houthis claim responsibility for strikes against US ships: report

Houthi militants successful Yemen are claiming work for caller attacks against U.S. warships successful the Red Sea. 

The panic radical claimed successful a connection published by the Jerusalem Post Tuesday that they had attacked the USS Harry S. Truman craft bearer and respective U.S. warships successful the Red Sea.

Early connected Wednesday, the Houthis said they had targeted a U.S. vas and Israeli subject locations utilizing drones.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the Department of Defense for comment.

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The Houthis successful Yemen claimed work for alleged caller attacks against U.S. warships. (Gerard Bottino/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The Houthis had claimed earlier this period that they had attacked the Truman and its warship successful effect to U.S. attacks connected Yemen, but offered nary grounds to enactment their assertion of retaliation.

The U.S. subject had changeable down respective Houthi drones a abbreviated clip earlier the group's claim.

This comes aft respective Trump medication officials discussed plans for a forthcoming subject onslaught against the Houthis successful a radical chat connected the encrypted messaging work Signal successful which they mistakenly added Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, who said helium received a petition to articulation the radical connected March 11 from what appeared to beryllium the president's National Security Advisor Michael Waltz.

The group, called "Houthi PC Small Group," featured apical Trump officials discussing what turned retired to beryllium an upcoming onslaught connected the Houthis, arsenic galore are criticizing the radical chat arsenic a monolithic breach of nationalist information and enactment that elder officials are not expected to sermon elaborate subject plans extracurricular peculiar unafraid facilities oregon protected authorities communications networks.

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The Houthis claimed they had attacked the USS Harry S. Truman craft bearer and respective U.S. warships successful the Red Sea. (Gerard Bottino/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Goldberg reported that 18 radical were listed successful the group, including Waltz, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

The nonfiction noted that officials were discussing "war plans," and Goldberg said helium elected not to people immoderate of the highly delicate accusation helium saw successful the Signal chat, including precise accusation astir weapons packages, targets and timing, due to the fact that of imaginable threats to nationalist information and subject operations.

The exertion besides said that Ratcliffe enactment the sanction of a CIA undercover cause into the Signal chat.

The Houthis said they had targeted a U.S. vas and Israeli subject locations utilizing drones. (AP)

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The White House has confirmed that the radical chat "appears to beryllium authentic," though medication officials, including Hegseth, person sought to downplay concerns and discredit Goldberg arsenic a reporter.

"I've heard however it was characterized. Nobody was texting warfare plans, and that's each I person to accidental astir that," Hegseth said Monday.

Hegseth criticized Goldberg arsenic "a deceitful and highly discredited, alleged writer who's made a assemblage of peddling hoaxes clip and clip again, to see the, I don't know, the hoaxes of Russia, Russia, Russia, oregon the good radical connected some sides hoax oregon suckers and losers hoax. So this feline is garbage."