Donald Trump announced that the Houthis had "surrendered"

US President Donald Trump said that Yemen's Houthis no longer want to fight, so the United States will stop bombing their positions.

"The Houthis have announced that they no longer want to fight, or at least they have announced to us. They simply do not want to fight. And we respect that. And we will stop the bombing, they have surrendered, but more importantly, we believe what they say. They said they will no longer blow up the ships. And that was the main goal of our actions," Trump said.

The US president added that the US military will immediately stop bombing Houthi positions.

The Houthis are a Yemeni Shiite militant movement, officially known as Ansarullah. They are actively fighting the Yemeni government, as well as Saudi Arabia and its allies, and consider Israel their main enemy.

The movement emerged in the 1990s under the influence of Hussein al-Houthi and is named after him. The Houthis have controlled the capital Sanaa and the north-west of the country since 2014, but are not internationally recognized. They are backed by Iran, making them part of a wider regional standoff between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

In March this year, Donald Trump said that any further attack by Yemen's Houthis would be met with a severe response and that "there is no guarantee that it will be contained." He said that Iran, which has close ties to the Yemeni militants, would be responsible for the Houthis' actions.

"From now on, every bullet fired by the Houthis will be considered a bullet fired by Iranian weapons and leadership, and Iran will be held accountable and face the consequences, and those consequences will be terrible!" Donald Trump wrote on the social network Truth.

The American president claimed that Iran "is controlling every step of the Houthis, providing them with weapons, finance, high-tech military equipment and even intelligence." Read 'Zamin' on Telegram!