{"id":370394,"date":"2026-10-11T15:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T15:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370394\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T15:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T15:28:11","slug":"president-trump-says-us-may-hit-houthis-after-american-killed-at-saudi-airport-and-terror-group-threatens-more-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370394\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump says US may hit Houthis after American killed at Saudi airport and terror group threatens more attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump<\/a> warned that the US may join Saudi Arabia in its upcoming retaliatory attacks against the Houthis after the Iran-backed terror group carried out the deadliest attack<\/a> on Riyadh and has threatened even more attacks on civilian enclaves.<\/p>\n

A Houthi spokesperson warned over the weekend that airports have become \u201ca theatre of operations for our forces\u201d and urged \u201ceveryone to take our warnings seriously,\u201d while accusing the Saudis of bearing \u201cresponsibility for any failed interceptions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Until now, Trump had seemingly refrained from attacking the Yemen-based terror group due to a sense that the Houthis have adhered to their end of a May cease-fire in which it committed\u00a0to not attack\u00a0vessels in the Red Sea and a broader\u00a0desire to stay out of a messy conflict<\/a> that predated the Iran war.<\/p>\n

President Trump revealed he is mulling whether or not to attack the Houthis. REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cWe may. We\u2019re going to look at it,\u201d Trump told reporters on Saturday when asked about joining the attacks against the Houthis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just found out about the recent attack, so we\u2019ll make a decision. We move very quickly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s terrible,\u201d Trump added at another point Saturday. \u201cThe Saudis are good fighters, but I think the attack was a terrible thing. We have communication with the Houthis, and we\u2019ll see what happens. But what they did was very bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joining the Saudi retaliation against the Houthis after the bloody attack on\u00a0King Khalid International Airport has the potential to significantly widen the ongoing conflict in the Middle East over Iran and its proxies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Houthi attack on Saturday killed 12, including one American, a Palestinian, an Egyptian, a Jordanian, a Syrian, a Sudanese, and two Bangladeshi nationals. It injured over 300 people, <\/p>\n

The Houthis carried out a bloody attack on King Khalid International Airport, AP<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s attack had drawn widespread international condemnation of the Houthis. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States strongly condemns the recent attacks on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by the terrorist Houthis,\u201d Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese reprehensible attacks demonstrate a blatant disregard for innocent civilian life. They must stop now,\u201d Rubio added. \u201cWe stand with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its people and extend our condolences to the victims and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tensions between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia, a country of 35 million people, have been escalating rapidly over recent weeks, with Riyadh allegedly intercepting a drone from the terror group near the Islamic holy city of\u00a0Mecca last month, outraging the Muslim world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Saudi Crown Prince\u00a0Mohammed bin Salman has reportedly been pushing Trump to take military action against the Houthis, as the US did between March and May of this year. <\/p>\n

Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman has reportedly pressed President Trump to attack the Houthis. REUTERS<\/p>\n

Already, Saudi Arabia launched two airstrikes on Yemen\u2019s capital of Sanaa in retaliation, the Houthis claimed. <\/p>\n

The\u00a0Houthi-run Health Ministry has also claimed that some 91 Yemenis have died and 168 have been injured in attacks by the Saudi-led coalition\u2019s campaign against the terror group in the past five weeks or so.<\/p>\n

The conflict between\u00a0Riyadh and the Houthis largely stems from the civil war in Yemen, which is Saudi Arabia\u2019s southern neighbor. The Saudis have long backed the internationally recognized Yemeni government, which is predominantly Sunni Muslim. <\/p>\n

Tensions between the Houthis and the Saudis have exploded over recent weeks. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Iran has backed the Houthis, who are Shia Muslims and took the capital of\u00a0Sanaa in 2014. A year later, the Saudis intervened militarily in an effort to restore the internationally recognized Yemeni government\u00a0to power.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fighting between the two sides has continued on and off ever since.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump warned that the US may join Saudi Arabia in its upcoming retaliatory attacks against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3347,153,164,9,11,10,87,25505,17371,58],"class_list":["post-370394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-airports","tag-donald-trump","tag-middle-east","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-politics","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-terrorists","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}