US military strikes on the Yemen-based Houthi militants will be “unrelenting” until the group stops shooting at civilian and military vessels in the Red Sea, the Pentagon chief said.
“This campaign is about freedom of navigation and restoring deterrence,” Pete Hegseth said in an interview on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures, speaking a day after the first strikes on the Houthis since President Donald Trump returned to power. “The minute the Houthis 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.”
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