The US launched military strikes against Yemen’s Houthis on Saturday over the group’s attacks against Red Sea shipping, with President Donald Trump warning, “Hell will rain down upon you” if the Houthis do not abandon their campaign.

Trump said he’d ordered “decisive and powerful military action” to end the threat posed to shipping.

“We will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective,” he said.

Trump also warned Iran, the Houthis’ main backer, that it needed to immediately halt support for the group. He said if Iran threatened the United States, “America will hold you fully accountable, and we won’t be nice about it!”

The Houthi-run health ministry said at least nine civilians were killed and nine injured in US strikes on Yemen’s Sanaa.

Residents in Sanaa said the strikes hit a building in a stronghold of the militant group.

“The explosions were violent and shook the neighborhood like an earthquake. They terrified........

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