President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States would halt its strike campaign against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, claiming the Iran-backed faction had “capitulated.”

“The Houthis have announced — to us, at least — that they don't want to fight anymore. They just don't want to fight, and we will honor that,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

“We will stop the bombings,” Trump said. “They have capitulated.” He specified that the halt would be “effective immediately.”

A source briefed on the matter claimed to Al-Monitor that Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East, brokered the halt in US strikes in Yemen via mediators in Oman.

In a statement released on X, Oman’s foreign minister, Badr Albusaidi, said the mediation had “resulted in a ceasefire agreement between the two sides.”

“In the future, neither........

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