Trump announced us to stop bombing Yemen, saying Houthi would not attack more American ships
President Donald Trump made a surprise announcement on Tuesday that the United States would stop bombing Houthi in Yemen, insisting that the rebel group had agreed to stop attacking US ships in the Red Sea.
“They have announced to us at least that they don’t want to fight anymore,” Trump said during an op-op oval photo with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. “They just don’t want to fight, and we will respect him.”
“And, they have given up,” he added. “But more importantly, they – we will take their words. They say they will not blow up the ship anymore.”
The image taken from the video provided by the US Navy shows the launch of the aircraft from USS Harry S. Truman in the Red Sea before air strikes there, Yemen, on March 15, 2025.
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This step limits the attack and expensive threats delivered by Trump’s administration, which caused a major reshuffle of the President’s National Security Team.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Oman confirmed the announcement at a post X on Tuesday.
“After the recent discussion and contact conducted by the Sultanate of Oman with the United States and related authorities there, in the Yemeni Republic, with the aim of de-escalation, efforts have resulted in a ceasefire agreement between the two parties,” Oman Foreign Ministry said in the statement.
“In the future, no party will target others, including American ships, in the Red Sea and the Al-Mandab Bab Strait, ensuring freedom of navigation and smoothly international commercial delivery,” he added.
However, Mohammed Ali Al Houthi, Houthis’s highest political council member, said Houthi did not immediately approve the ceasefire processed by the US.
Houthi will “evaluate” the US Certificate Proposal “on the ground first,” he posted on X Tuesday afternoon.
When asked by ABC News for more details about the announcement, the US Central Command was postponed to the White House.
Trump was pressed by reporters for further details on how the agreement with Houthi gathered, but he quickly said the announcement was not an agreement.
President Donald Trump spoke when he met with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House Oval Office in Washington, May 6, 2025.
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“They have said, ‘Please don’t bomb us anymore, and we will not attack your ship,'” he said.
When asked who told the US that the Houthi attack on US ships would stop, Trump refused, said “no problem” and then added that it was from “very good source.”
State Secretary Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance laughed and said they agreed with him.
“They don’t want to be bombed anymore,” Trump repeated.
Rubio added that “This is always a mission of freedom of navigation.”
“These people, this, you know, a group of individuals with sophisticated weapons that threaten global shipping,” he said. “And the job is to stop.”
The US started an air strike on Yemen against the Houthi target starting March 15 and has carried out more than 800 attacks, according to the US military.
On April 18, the American strike at the Port of Ras Isa’s fuel killed at least 74 people and injured 171 others in the deadliest attack of the American campaign.
However, the US military has received several hit too.
The US military has lost seven reaper drones since March 15, each drone worth $ 30 million, and f/A-18e fighter jets rolled out from the side of the USS aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman and sank to the red seabed two weeks ago. Nothing was killed in the incident.
USS Harry S. Truman might make a sudden movement because of Houthi’s fire, eventually causing fighter jets to launch it, according to a US official, who quoted the initial field report. This incident is still being investigated, but the aircraft carrier has previously been targeted by Houthi.
On March 16, 2025, photo files, Yemeni people swept glass destroyed from their homes and shops after the United States air strike launched on the capital of Houthi-Held Sana’a and other provinces, there, Yemen.
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Israeli forces have also carried out attacks on Yemen for the past two days, attacking its main port in the Red Sea, two cement factories and Sanaa Airport.
The Israeli government said the strike was a response to the Houthi attack on Israel on Sunday, and Israel’s defense forces said that he targeted Houthi infrastructure in Yemen in the strike.
While Trump claimed the US mission against Houthi had become a mission of “freedom of navigation” from the beginning, conflicts in the Red Sea between Houthis and the US and England have occurred since October 8, 2023.
Houthi said they would attack ships connected to Israeli Allies to support the Palestinian people in Gaza after Israel launched a military operation against Gaza after Hamas’s terrorist attack on October 7, 2023.
Since then, Houthi has targeted the ship they said to be connected with Israeli Allies in the Red Sea with various severity over the past 19 months. The US increased the conflict three days before Israel ended the temporary ceasefire with Hamas, continuing military operations in Gaza on March 18. The US launched its first strike against Houthi on March 5.
Trump’s government has spent weeks trying to save face to plan his own attacks in Yemen after it was revealed that leading national security members, including national security adviser Mike Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, communicated plans about the attacks that were coming to the signal.
Atlantic Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally invited to one of the signal group chats and saw details about the plan.
Last week, Trump announced that Waltz would leave his cabinet position and would be nominated as the US Ambassador to the United Nations.
ABC News’ Ahmed Baider contributed to this report.
