US military shoots down Houthi drones as Trump’s strikes against terrorist group continue
US warships have shot down roughly a dozen Houthi drones since President Donald Trump launched airstrikes against the terrorist organization on Saturday, Fox News has learned. NY Post producer Brian Faas shares this story.
A senior defense official told Fox News of the developments on Sunday.
The drones were aimed at the US Navy’s Truman Carrier Strike Group, and were shot down “well before” they posed a serious threat, the official added.
The latest military action came after nearly a year and a half of attacks from Houthis, both on commercial merchant vessels and US military ships.
In a Truth Social post on Saturday, Trump wrote that he had “ordered the United States Military to launch decisive and powerful Military action against the Houthi terrorists in Yemen.”
“It has been over a year since a US-flagged commercial ship safely sailed through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, or the Gulf of Aden,” Trump continued. “The last American Warship to
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