Saudi military strikes Houthi targets in Yemen after Iran-backed militia attacked Red Sea shipping

Saudi Arabia said on Saturday that its coalition forces struck Houthi militia in Yemen after the Iran-backed group claimed to have attacked two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea earlier in the week. Air defenses in Saudi Arabia reportedly intercepted two ballistic missiles from Yemen. The latest salvos appeared to indicate an escalation in fighting in a second front in the Iran war. The Saudi strikes focused solely on legitimate military targets that the terrorist Houthi militia uses to threaten commercial vessels in the Red Sea, Major General Turki Al-Malki, spokesperson for the Saudi-led Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen, said in a statement. On Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump said he would hold Iran responsible for further attacks by the Houthis. If they do this again, the U.S. will hold Iran responsible, in that the Houthis are a Surrogate and/or Proxy of Iran, and major military punishment will be inflicted upon Iran and, of course, the Houthis, themselves, he said in a Truth Social post.