Trump claims Houthis 'don't want to fight' and says US will stop bombing campaign

President Donald Trump connected Tuesday announced the U.S. volition halt its bombing run against the Houthis successful Yemen aft the violent radical told him they "don't privation to fight."

"They conscionable don't privation to fight," Trump told reporters from the Oval Office. "They conscionable don't privation to, and we volition grant that. We volition halt the bombings."

Trump said the bombings connected Houthi targets volition halt "effectively immediately."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio past said the "job" was to get attacks connected ships successful the portion to stop.

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Newly recruited Houthi fighters be a protestation march against the U.S.-led strikes connected Yemen and the Israeli warfare successful the Gaza Strip, connected Wednesday, Feb. 21, successful Sanaa, Yemen.  (AP/Osamah Abdulrahman)

"If that's going to stop, we volition stop," helium added.

State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce reiterated to reporters connected Tuesday that Rubio ever saw the occupation with Houthis successful the Red Sea arsenic a state of navigation issue.

"These are a set of individuals with precocious weaponry that were threatening planetary shipping, and the occupation was to get that to stop," she said.

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US President Donald Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney successful the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington, DC, connected May 6, 2025. (Jim WATSON / AFP)

Trump said the "very bully news" came successful past nighttime from a "very bully source," though helium would not corroborate who it was. 

"They person capitulated," the president said, adding that the U.S. "will instrumentality their word."

"They accidental they volition not beryllium blowing up ships anymore. And that's what the intent of what we were doing," helium added successful notation to the U.S.'s aerial operations. 

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President Donald Trump observes U.S. subject enactment against the Houthis connected March 15. (The White House)

The U.S. since mid-March has deed immoderate 800 Houthi targets, according to an April 27 connection by U.S. Central Command. 

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The quality comes arsenic Israel appears to beryllium ramping up subject strikes connected the Houthis successful bluish Yemen, peculiarly successful the superior metropolis of Sana'a, which is nether Houthi control.

Trump did not supply immoderate details connected however the U.S. volition proceed to antagonistic Iranian assistance to the Houthi violent network.