Zürcher Nachrichten - US vows 'unrelenting' campaign to halt Huthi ship attacks

EUR -
AED 3.996124
AFN 76.91638
ALL 99.43422
AMD 426.532309
ANG 1.963588
AOA 992.312552
ARS 1161.999462
AUD 1.719686
AWG 1.958512
AZN 1.849362
BAM 1.95549
BBD 2.199851
BDT 132.378991
BGN 1.948312
BHD 0.410731
BIF 3228.22834
BMD 1.088062
BND 1.454142
BOB 7.528805
BRL 6.249396
BSD 1.089527
BTN 94.701971
BWP 14.843644
BYN 3.565534
BYR 21326.021555
BZD 2.188453
CAD 1.564361
CDF 3129.267194
CHF 0.961842
CLF 0.026416
CLP 1013.703689
CNY 7.875232
CNH 7.877283
COP 4494.382878
CRC 544.308616
CUC 1.088062
CUP 28.833652
CVE 110.247504
CZK 25.016715
DJF 194.009211
DKK 7.460746
DOP 68.508498
DZD 145.369258
EGP 55.125891
ERN 16.320935
ETB 143.101575
FJD 2.492721
FKP 0.841171
GBP 0.841214
GEL 3.019385
GGP 0.841171
GHS 16.802733
GIP 0.841171
GMD 77.786932
GNF 9435.791472
GTQ 8.38305
GYD 227.389153
HKD 8.456589
HNL 27.890973
HRK 7.533639
HTG 144.795971
HUF 399.100457
IDR 17791.715139
ILS 3.975687
IMP 0.841171
INR 94.605581
IQD 1425.695564
IRR 45701.751424
ISK 145.793296
JEP 0.841171
JMD 169.886572
JOD 0.771428
JPY 161.744836
KES 141.124674
KGS 95.15106
KHR 4353.376547
KMF 491.551026
KPW 979.266168
KRW 1579.044208
KWD 0.335993
KYD 0.892223
KZT 545.336381
LAK 23559.806091
LBP 98173.393644
LKR 322.402919
LRD 216.708148
LSL 19.768791
LTL 3.212765
LVL 0.658158
LYD 5.236836
MAD 10.542274
MDL 19.358031
MGA 5087.029598
MKD 61.344414
MMK 2284.667921
MNT 3779.035313
MOP 8.711617
MRU 43.488693
MUR 48.909135
MVR 16.821356
MWK 1886.041132
MXN 21.680975
MYR 4.838024
MZN 69.173009
NAD 19.768791
NGN 1683.898576
NIO 39.850363
NOK 11.576668
NPR 151.439884
NZD 1.890178
OMR 0.418904
PAB 1.088062
PEN 3.980498
PGK 4.411623
PHP 62.312512
PKR 304.762048
PLN 4.176456
PYG 8690.4657
QAR 3.960039
RON 4.976912
RSD 117.210648
RUB 93.034392
RWF 1528.593188
SAR 4.080406
SBD 9.2483
SCR 16.253636
SDG 651.807842
SEK 11.01927
SGD 1.451978
SHP 0.855046
SLE 24.840176
SLL 22816.124085
SOS 622.142866
SRD 39.490855
STD 22520.693322
SVC 9.521041
SYP 14146.828768
SZL 19.768791
THB 36.457472
TJS 11.851508
TMT 3.815123
TND 3.349073
TOP 2.615509
TRY 39.906954
TTD 7.408387
TWD 35.87815
TZS 2863.364539
UAH 45.314397
UGX 3988.376264
USD 1.088062
UYU 46.396515
UZS 14087.479461
VES 71.6192
VND 27751.086338
VUV 133.785892
WST 3.066698
XAF 655.401368
XAG 0.032196
XAU 0.000364
XCD 2.937808
XDR 0.816563
XOF 655.401368
XPF 119.331742
YER 268.490832
ZAR 19.800857
ZMK 9793.860703
ZMW 31.282417
ZWL 350.355624
  • JRI

    0.0335

    12.83

    +0.26%

  • BCC

    2.9700

    99.35

    +2.99%

  • RBGPF

    66.0200

    66.02

    +100%

  • RELX

    1.1200

    48.93

    +2.29%

  • SCS

    0.2000

    10.99

    +1.82%

  • NGG

    0.8900

    63.21

    +1.41%

  • RIO

    1.8400

    63.04

    +2.92%

  • GSK

    0.2600

    39.49

    +0.66%

  • CMSC

    0.0500

    23.22

    +0.22%

  • BCE

    -0.1990

    23.47

    -0.85%

  • VOD

    0.0500

    9.55

    +0.52%

  • AZN

    1.0900

    77.6

    +1.4%

  • RYCEF

    0.0500

    10.4

    +0.48%

  • BP

    1.0200

    33.39

    +3.05%

  • BTI

    -0.0200

    41.36

    -0.05%

  • CMSD

    0.1500

    23.35

    +0.64%

US vows 'unrelenting' campaign to halt Huthi ship attacks
US vows 'unrelenting' campaign to halt Huthi ship attacks / Photo: Andrew Harnik - GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File

US vows 'unrelenting' campaign to halt Huthi ship attacks

US officials on Sunday vowed further strikes in Yemen until the Huthi rebels decide to end their attacks on Red Sea shipping, while also threatening action against the group's backer Iran.

Text size:

In a wave of strikes on Saturday, the first against the rebel group since US President Donald Trump returned to office in January, several Huthi leaders were killed, the White House said.

The airstrikes "actually targeted multiple Huthi leaders and took them out," National Security Advisor Michael Waltz told ABC News.

He added that the United States "will hold not only the Huthis accountable, but we’re going to hold Iran, their backers, accountable as well."

"And if that means their targeting ships that they have put in to help, their Iranian trainers... other things that they have put in to help the Huthis attack the global economy, those targets will be on the table too."

In a separate appearance on Fox News, he said the strikes "put Iran on notice that enough is enough."

The US strikes killed at least 31 people and wounded 101, the Yemeni rebel group's health ministry said Sunday.

The Tehran-backed group, who have controlled much of Yemen for more than a decade, staunchly oppose Israel and the United States and say the shipping attacks are in protest of Israel's war in Gaza.

The Huthis have launched scores of drone and missile attacks on ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden since the outbreak of the war, which was spurred by the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel.

US warships have been attacked 174 times and commercial vessels 145 times since 2023, according to the Pentagon, putting a major strain on a sea route that normally carries about 12 percent of world shipping traffic.

Trump, in a lengthy Truth Social post Saturday announcing the latest attacks, warned Huthi leaders that "YOUR ATTACKS MUST STOP, STARTING TODAY. IF THEY DON'T, HELL WILL RAIN DOWN UPON YOU LIKE NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE!"

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth echoed that message Sunday, vowing an "unrelenting" missile campaign until the Huthi attacks stop.

"I want to be very clear, this campaign is about freedom of navigation and restoring deterrence," Hegseth said in a televised Fox Business interview.

"The minute the Huthis say, 'We'll stop shooting at your ships, we'll stop shooting at your drones,' this campaign will end. But until then, it will be unrelenting."

Yemen has seen over a decade of civil war, with the Huthis controlling the capital Sanaa since 2014.

Hegseth, in blunt terms, said the United States was not seeking to get involved in a long Middle East war.

"We don't care what happens in the Yemeni civil war," he said.

"This is about stopping the shooting at assets in that critical waterway, to reopen freedom of navigation, which is a core national interest of the United States."

Trump last month sent a letter to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei proposing nuclear talks and saying that in the absence of a deal the matter could be handled "militarily."

Tehran chafed at that suggestion, saying it would not negotiate while being "threatened."

Waltz, in his ABC interview, said flatly: "Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. All options are on the table to ensure it does not have one."

He added: "They can either hand it over and give it up in a way that is verifiable, or they can face a whole series of other consequences, but either way, we cannot have a world with the ayatollahs with their finger on the nuclear button."

D.Smith--NZN