Trump claims Houthis 'don't want to fight' and says US will stop bombing campaign
President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced the U.S. will stop its bombing campaign against the Houthis in Yemen after the terrorist group told him they "don't want to fight."
"They just don't want to fight," Trump told reporters from the Oval Office. "They just don't want to, and we will honor that. We will stop the bombings."
Trump said the bombings on Houthi targets will stop "effectively immediately."
Secretary of State Marco Rubio then said the "job" was to get attacks on ships in the region to stop.
"If that's going to stop, we will stop," he added.
State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce reiterated to reporters on Tuesday that Rubio always saw the problem with Houthis in the Red Sea as a freedom of navigation issue.
"These are a band of individuals with advanced weaponry that were threatening global shipping, and the job was to get that to stop," she said.......
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I guess shooting at ships in the Red Sea isn't as fun when they shoot back.
